Quotes About Explanation

the end, it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation.

Explanation is where the mind rests.

An ideal system, arranged of itself, without a precedent design, is not a whit more explicable than a material one which attains its order in a like manner; nor is there any more difficulty in the latter supposition than in the former.

Horror movies -- of the genuinely fantastic, supernatural variety -- had not been invented yet, at least not in America, where convention dictated that supernatural occurrences always be "explained away," usually as the disguise or machinations of a criminal.

I tried to think of a good reason as to why I had a sex book down my pants, but my brain refused to work.

That explains it. The zap should have faded by evening, but the freeze made it permanent." "Permanent?

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.