Quotes About Explanation

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

The simplest, most comprehensive and hardest to disprove explanation for absolutely everything that ever could happen anywhere, at any time, is, of course, 'it was God's will.

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It's not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.

How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice

Sweet Eda. Fitz, he has your face. Right down to the break in your nose." Amber cleared her throat. She spoke breathlessly into our shocked silence. "Fitz. Please. I can explain everything.

what I have become. And so I begin again, and again, but always find that I am writing of my own beginnings rather than the beginnings of this land. I do not even know to whom I try to explain myself. My life has been a web of secrets, secrets that even now are unsafe to share. Shall I set them all down on fine paper, only to create from them flame and ash? Perhaps. My memories reach back to when I was six years old. Before that, there is nothing, only a blank gulf

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, none will suffice.

Pym! The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. I seconded you to look after Miles. Would you care to explain this scene? There was a thoughtful pause. In a voice of simple honesty, Pym replied, No, Milady.

I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men.

Ah." "And what does ah mean?" he asked, slightly exasperated. "It's sort of like biting my tongue, but less painful.

The Tree of Life—This figure must be studied very carefully, for it is the basis of the whole system on which the Tarot is based. It is quite impossible to give a complete explanation of this figure, because (for one thing) it is quite universal. Therefore it cannot mean the same to any one person as to any other.78

I am sorry, Fletcher," said Tandy, beating him to the apology. "But to explain the hows and whys of my earthly presence would be to explain something your brain is not capable of processing. No offense, of course." "No offense taken." "And please remember that I'm new to this, too. I am certain there will be many situations for which I have no explanation.

shoulders. Between sips of coffee, he explained what happened. "How are the girls?" Dal

Instead, they called her a name. They called her "a genius." And even though it really didn't explain anything, everybody considered it a satisfactory explanation. And that way, nobody ever had to really try to understand.

one explanation did not rule out the other, that charged electrons could be spirits, that nothing ruled out anything else, that mathematics was a rigorous form of madness

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. Mrs. Cheyne lived in fear of breaking his spirit, which, perhaps, was the reason that she herself walked on the edge of nervous prostration.

I explained as much as I knew of the seal-cutter's way of jadoo; but her argument was much more simple: "The magic that is always demanding gifts is no true magic," said she.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Like many millions of people, I am a bastard child of history. Perhaps we all are, black and brown and white, leaking into one another, as a character of mine once said, like flavours [sic] when you cook

Miracles only happen when y' have done all you can, not before. Ye can ask for them, but ye might not get. But sometimes ye do. Sometimes they come without askin'. Oftentimes they can be explained by natural happenings, which perhaps they are, though timed just right. Above all, they are rare. Now mark me! There's one name for the man who claims to do miracles regularly, and that name is liar. Run from such a man.

Now, tell me. Where did you get that?" He glanced down in the direction of her accusing stare. "Oh, that! Somebody lent it to me." He was wearing it specially. A winged penis. To meet his wife's people. She would never understand Romans.