Quotes About Explanation

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

Behavior of a system whose parts display a choice cannot be explained by mechanical or biological models.

By a false etymology they explained the word Dithyrambos as meaning "He of the double door," their word thyra being the same as our door.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Cuando se queja, se convierte en una víctima. Cuando se explica, está en posesión de su poder. Así que cambie la situación actuando o hablando claro si es necesario o posible; salga de la situación o acéptela. Lo demás es locura.

If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer, and Croc shoes.

If Hesiod did write it, then a humble peasant, living on a lonely farm far from cities, was the first man in Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky, the gods, mankind, and to think out an explanation. Homer never wondered about anything.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love

the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.

When the logic of history hungers for bread and we hand out a stone, we are at pains to explain how much the stone resembles bread.

Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.

Had he himself ever felt Korean inside, for example? How would he know? Wouldn't it just feel like . . . himself? Whatever he'd felt, it was probably not what Scott felt. But also, he was Korean American, not Korean, a distinction he had never been able to explain sufficiently to the white people in his life so far,

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

I thought that there must be an easier way to explain how a gravitational wave interacts with matter: If one just looked at the most primitive thing of all, 3D floating masses out in space, and look at how the space between them changed because of the gravitational wave coming between them.

We cannot explain the phenomenon of gravitational lensing without general relativity, and this is where MOND spectacularly fails.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

When I used to say I did dressage, I got blank looks. No one had a clue what I was on about.

It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don't.

You just have to believe in what you're saying and be able to explain why you said it. There's nothing I say that I can't back up or at least explain why I came to that conclusion, so I'm not afraid of getting in trouble.