Quotes About Explanation

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

Non c'è niente di inspiegabile in quello che sentiamo o facciamo, davvero; è solo che a volte le spiegazioni ci causano imbarazzo, e troviamo più conveniente non ricercarle con troppa insistenza.

He hangs up. "Told her it was a butt dial. She was very understanding." I blink. "Let me get this straight. You are telling me that the government wants to recruit me for some black ops-type, probably illegal mission and you just said the word butt to the actual president of the United states?" "I am.

Those choices are not just for yourself. There will be the perplexing—and equally painful—task of having to explain to your children why they will not be treated as other Americans: that they will never be altogether accepted, that they will always be regarded warily, if not with suspicion or hostility.

In a system of precedent, the new majority bears the weight of explaining why the constitutional vision of their predecessors was flawed and of making the case as to why theirs better captures the meaning of our fundamental law.

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works.

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you haven't done; you need to deliver the details, which you can't when you haven't done anything. It's not just, Yes, I did!' No, it doesn't work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

The dangerous part about excuses is that a lot of them make sense.

Shut up,' he explained.

Anyway, the above must serve as my explanation and apology for treating Thomas More, a Christian Saint, as a hero of selfhood.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.