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Quotes About Explanation

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. My
~ Diane Setterfield
There was no rational explanation for what she had seen. It was unscientific. And Hester knew the world was totally and profoundly scientific. There could be only one explanation. "I must be mad," she whispered. Her pupils dilated and her nostrils quivered. "I have seen a ghost!
~ Diane Setterfield
Cualquier institutriz, después de pasar unas pocas horas en esta casa, se habría hecho una idea clara y completa de la tarea a la que se enfrenta; pero el médico es un hombre, de modo que no puede percatarse de lo tedioso que a cualquiera le resulta que le expliquen detenidamente lo que ya ha entendido.
~ Diane Setterfield
A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful. The
~ Donald A. Norman
A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful.
~ Donald A. Norman
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
~ Donald E. Knuth
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
~ Donald Miller
A one-liner is a concise statement you can use to clearly explain what you offer. It is the most powerful tool you can use to make customers curious about your brand.
~ Donald Miller
The Explanatory Paragraph Is Where Your SEO Will Come From
~ Donald Miller
when we explain what we do using a tiny short story, people pay attention.
~ Donald Miller
The explanatory paragraph is a great way to accomplish both.
~ Donald Miller
It's a long story. I'll make it short as I can.
~ Donna Tartt
The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
~ Jack Bruce
Paradójicamente, a partir de que el hombre adjudicó a la materia el papel que le correspondía a la Conciencia como origen de todas las cosas, perdió la posibilidad de explicar su propia existencia, cuando su motivación era precisamente entenderla.
~ Jacobo Grinberg
There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?
~ Unknown
There's no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?
~ Unknown
To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.
~ Jacques Rancière
Words cannot embody; they can only describe.
~ James Agee
The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.
~ Ludwik Fleck
El arte es el intento de explicar lo inefable.
~ Unknown
Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?... If he comes along and confines you in prison... who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.
~ Lynn Austin
Yahweh doesn't owe us an explanation for what He does. He's sovereign over all: 'Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty? They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than the depths of the grave—what can you know?. . . If he comes along and confines you in prison. . . who can oppose him?' So you see? I don't need to know why anymore.
~ Lynn Austin
Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.
~ Unknown
Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.
~ Machiavelli