Quotes About Explanation

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident

I am includes all that has made me so. It's more than a statement of immediate fact: it is already an explanation, a justification, a demand - it is already biographical.

Part of what makes a theory elegant is its power to explain much while assuming little.

a "free People think they have a right to an Explanation of the Circumstances which give rise to the Necessity under which they suffer.

He would have considered it ironic that, the more men discovered the insignificance of their planet, the more highly they would rate themselves, all the more sure that they could explain everything without reference to God. They

They listened to the Beatles for most of the journey, and Hynes explained to Gackowska why Abbey Road was the band's best record, and how Sgt. Pepper's wasn't really a concept album, no matter what anyone claimed to the contrary. Then he had to explain to Gackowska what a concept album was, and a B side, until pretty soon he felt about a hundred years old and was tempted to check himself into a nursing home.

His eyes fixed on the boy. David saw them narrow, as if the bowman could not quite understand what was being said or what was happing to him as he knelt in the snow, his blood pooling around him. Then, slowly, they grew wide and calm as death gave him an explanation.

We have never explained the numerical value of any of the constants of Nature.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

Bernhard Riemann was a very pure case of the intuitive mathematician. This needs some explaining. The mathematical personality has two large components, the logical and the intuitive. Both are present in any good mathematician, but often one or the other is strongly dominant.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise, as Douglas says, it's just not worth the effort. It's too boring.

The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly. Otherwise

used Occam's razor—the principle that given more than one explanation, you should begin by choosing the simplest one—and plausible reasoning to arrive at a neat formula for determining the "correct" price of a warrant.

Why would Donald Trump, who prides himself on his good taste, fall in love with Donald Trump? I mean, who can explain these things? Obsessions by their very nature defy reason.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

One can understand sufficiently and precisely; however, it cannot always explain that simply as one understands love completely; whereas, it can't explain rightly and logically that.

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

is probably as good a single explanation as any for the fall of both Greece and Rome.