Quotes About Explanation

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

Then, why did I do this, you ask?' He stroked his chin, like an actor trying to look deep and thoughtful. 'The short answer is: hope.

Si es difícil vivir, es aún mucho más penoso explicar nuestra vida

So perhaps the very idea of explanation is an error of anthropomorphism when it is applied to things that do not involve human intention.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Mind-boggling, isn't it? Centuries before the question of why mathematics was so effective in explaining nature was even asked, Galileo thought he already knew the answer! To him, mathematics was simply the language of the universe. To understand the universe, he argued, one must speak this language. God is indeed a mathematician.

Qué suerte tenían aquellos para quienes la existencia del ser supremo no había sido nunca un problema, sino una certeza gracias a la cual el mundo se les ordenaba y todo encontraba su explicación y razón de ser.

Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight. The

Beware of men with theories that explain everything. Trust those who approach the world with humility and cautious insight

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and non-stick frying pans.

I don't have a system. Theology is a system. Not my theology. Then what is it? What is it? It's the overwhelming combination of all that I've seen, felt, and cannot explain, that has stayed with me and refused to depart, that drives me again and again to a faith of which I am not sure, that is alluring because it will not stoop to be defined by so inadequate a creature as man. Unlike Marxism, it is ineffable, and it cannot be explained in words.

I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it.

Christmas a bore! No; a man who thought Christmas to be a bore should never be more to her than a mere acquaintance. She listened to his explanation, and then left the room, almost indignantly.

For nothing is moved at haphazard, but in every case there must be some reason present [1071b]

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?

Magic is just science we don't understand yet

Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, said he. Results without causes are much more impressive.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining.

Cuando un hecho parece contradecir un largo cortejo de deducciones resulta de una manera invariable capaz de ser interpretado de diferente manera.