Top 408 Explains Quotes & Sayings

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be explicable by physics, which we know because physics explains everything. There is something here of the mystical.

The traditional story of economists has been to say education explains what the returns are to school. I say, 'Okay, that's fine, but what explains the education? How much is just a matter of my giving you a poor kid versus a rich kid?'

A good theory explains a lot but postulates little.

While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of our most successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics, which explains the physics of the small, and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, which explains the physics of the large, including gravity.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.

I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me -and I love to live life at full throttle.

Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.

Keeping it simple, 'Bounce Back' explains my trust issues. I'm sure everyone can relate in some way.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

Cheap labor explains why there is so much resistance to protecting America's border.

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.