Top 939 Explanation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

Good luck needs no explanation.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

God is the explanation of all things.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

The American vice is explanation.

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

God means movement, and not explanation.

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask

The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Who then will explain the explanation?

The ride does not require an explanation, just participants.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.