Quotes About Explanation

Instiinct' blijft ook daarna de gebruikelijke verklaring wanneer het gedrag van dieren te veel op intelligentie lijkt te wijzen.

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

God is not a reality to be explained; He is the explanation of reality.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

Poetry is the intuitive explanation of the unconscious mind

There are plenty of scientific theories why they do this, none of which can be summarized as "because they can," disappointingly.

In science we look to Occam's razor (or scientific parsimony) to understand phenomena, the concept that the best hypothesis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions.

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But such a general yearning could not be explained except by attributing the cause of it to the historical training through which the individual Austrian Germans had passed.

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

But he knew he'd started reading books on Sri Lanka, because he needed to explain things, to himself and others -- because if that world, his world over there had ever made sense, it seemed far more confused when questioned from outside.

Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense.

A question about the philosophy of knowledge and science..... Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can go through is mysterious. So why do some of us try to explain some issues of imagination, and thus depriving those issues of their ambiguity!

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Sincerity is barely an explanation: it is never an excuse.

One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Haralal explained why the money came to his house at night, like birds to their nest, to be scattered next morning.

Do you want the long answer or the short?" is the customary divide between explanations versus outcomes in the retelling of events. Ferrante gives us both the long answer and the short, and in doing so adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience.