Explanation Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Funny Inspirational Love
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all. — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. Forthose who do not understand, no explanation is possible — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image