Quotes About Explanation

This was how people disappeared from history, wasn't it? They weren't erased, they were explained away.

The fundamental difference between a social network explanation and a non-network explanation of a process is the inclusion of concepts and information on relationships among units in a study.

A significant difference between Pacioli's book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was new in Europe, and Pacioli is believed to have provided the first printed explanation.

Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.

Is that…?" I nodded. I tried to explain, but the words wouldn't come. I handed him the paper. He finished reading it. "That's not…?" he murmured when he finished. "How…?" "Okay, what gives?" Corey said. "Personally, I wouldn't care if the U.S. declared war on Canada. Doesn't seem relevant under the circumstances.

You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.

After he got expelled, everybody at school called Jake Houdini instead of Jake. Everybody except for me. I'll explain why, but you have to be patient. It's hard work telling everything in the right order.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

hasta que el asunto se haya aclarado.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Her condition isn't quite what it seems," explained Klein. "It's a form of overcompensation, an overreaction to depression.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct, which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. —JOHN VON NEUMANN

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

Every why hath a wherefore.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Use e.g. when you mean "for example": "I like junk food—e.g., Doritos and Pringles." (How to remember: "For eg-zample.") Use i.e. when you mean "in other words": "He ate Doritos and Pringles—i.e., junk food." (How to remember: "in other words.")