Quotes About Explanation

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

I'm the 'Dear Abby' of math problems. But if you understand something, shouldn't you be able to explain it? Isn't that the whole point?

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

I want my music to do the explaining.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

I was very conscious of the world being this very crazed place that demanded explanation. I didn't see a whole lot of people who looked like me doing it on television.

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.