Explanation Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro

Good luck needs no explanation.
Shirley Temple

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
William Buechner

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

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

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.
David Kay

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
Solange Knowles

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.
Ronald Blythe

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.
Edward Witten

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.
Richard Jewell

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation.
Javier Cuadros







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