Quotes About Explanations

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth.

Prigogine and Stengers caution against leaping to genetic or sociobiological explanations for puzzling social behavior. Many things that are attributed to biological pre-wiring are not produced by selfish, determinist genes, but rather by social interactions under nonequilibrium conditions.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

whether you're talking about boners, infidelities, late rent, or the Democratic primary: a single plausible excuse will sound like a credible explanation while a basket full of excuses—even a basket stuffed with equally legitimate, plausible/probable excuses—will sound like a desperate/unbelievable lie.

Unlike animals, who react to stimuli but cannot think of rational explanations for them, humans have the ability to change their behavior by understanding causes, circumstances, and solutions.

Speculative explanations of that phenomenon come down to the fact that the virus mutates rapidly, which explains why a mantra at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is "When you've seen one influenza season, you've seen one influenza season.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

If explanations are needed, then what's the meaning of trust?

Las explicaciones de los estilos de vida son como las patatas fritas. La gente insiste en comérselas hasta acabar con toda la bolsa.

The history of ideas matters because ideas make actors out of human beings, and they make actors out of us precisely insofar as they occupy this open, uncontrollable, and inherently unlimited universe of explanations, not the stultifying dogma of a supposed conceptual scheme, not the inert, always epiphenomenal utterances we call doctrines or first principles.

But the problem is that you don't dare to think about anything. You're afraid; you don't know where your thoughts might lead you. Everything inside you is confused. You keep your eyes closed and stay on the old path. They brought you here, I don't know why and it doesn't concern me, but you won't accept my explanations of human guilt. You think it's a joke. Maybe it is, but maybe one could develop quite a nice philosophical idea out of it

These constantly arriving foreign inhabitants form the first of at least four explanations for the high biodiversity urban naturalists are encountering in their cities. A second explanation is the fact that the places where people like to build their settlements, which then grow into cities, are often biologically rich areas to begin with.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Haven't we known for a long time that it's a mistake to attach meaning to each and every action of a person? Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.