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Quotes About Explanation

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.
~ Larry Wilmore
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
~ Richard Dawkins
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.
~ Geoffrey Wood
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
~ Stephen Hawking
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
~ Ernest Rutherford
For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
~ Jeff Jarrett
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
~ Donald Miller
Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.
~ Travis Nichols
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
~ Anaxagoras
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.
~ Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
Medication without explanation is obscene.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
History is all explained by geography.
~ Robert Penn Warren
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~ Paul Ricoeur
My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.
~ Jamie Dimon
We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.
~ Leon M. Lederman
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.
~ Catherine Aird, Parting Breath
Maybe, " he said in a slow, rural drawl, "you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy." "Well, " I said, "if you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it.
~ Jim Butcher, Hex Appeal
Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Every vice has its excuse ready.
~ Publilius Syrus
I graduated first in my class from alibi school.
~ Jeffrey McDaniel
If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
~ Jim Rohn