Quotes About Explanation

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

My father, a closet astronomer, has tried to explain black holes to me, how they are so heavy they absorb everything, even light, right into their center. Moments like this are the same kind of vacuum; no matter what you cling to, you wind up being sucked in.

We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid. New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners if possible. I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

There had been an army in which that sort of thing was done, a strong quasi-memory told me. The Marxist POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War, early twentieth. You obeyed an order only after it had been explained in detail; you could refuse if it didn't make sense. Officers and men got drunk together and never saluted or used titles. They lost the war. But the other side didn't have any fun.

Evolution by means of natural selection (or indeed any kind of selection—natural or unnatural) provides the most beautiful, elegant explanation in all of science.

Explain to me why you did it. Dont say it didnt mean anything, because at that moment, it was exactly what you wanted.

You left me without any reason, dont come back with an excuse.

If you leave someone at least tell them why, because what's more painful than being abandoned; is knowing you're not worth an explanation.

What's harder? The breakup or explaining to the next what happened with the ex?!

I pray for forgiveness as my thoughts have no limits and my actions have no mercy. People piss me off that's why I never talk. I say something you don't listen or understand. I try to explain myself, but I guess you already presumed that you've got better plans.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

'Why were you late?' Cause the bell rang before I got here...

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving.

When you don't win, people have to make up a reason.

Imogen relaxed a little. She dared to sit up. "Cart's blood sugar is low in the mornings," she explained to Fenella. "Is that what it's called?" said Fenella. "I thought it was bad temper.

There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.