Quotes About Explanation

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

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.

Después de todo, ¿qué diferencia hay entre vivir y dar explicaciones sobre la vida?

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

It was a simpler explanation, and, implausible as it might appear, it was comfortably understandable.

I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. The thing is, I said finally, he won the Nobel Prize. Well, she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, Im not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.

n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" ("I have no need for that assumption

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.