Explanation Quotes
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She's the gal in the red blue jeans.
Vincent Eugene Craddock
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Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.
Felix Klein
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The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.
Lewis H. Lapham
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God is the explanation of all things.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
William of Occam
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
Albert Bandura
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Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.
Lou Holtz
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Lewis Trogdon
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Who then will explain the explanation?
Lord Byron
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He who believes needs no explanation.
Euripides
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One of the fundamental challenges of emancipation in South Africa is for the emancipated to avoid the conceptual trap of ascribing to the past of white racism centrality of explanation.
Njabulo S Ndebele
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What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?
William Godwin
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
Barnett Newman
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
D.T. Max
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
Ted Dekker
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats - the rich...the banks...the Chinese.
Bill Bonner
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Erykah Badu
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Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Rabbi Hillel
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So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
William of Occam
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty