Quotes About Explanation

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

The suffering faces of depleted men and women reached across to them, pleading not so much for help – they were beyond that – but for an explanation. Just something to subdue this confusion.

She attempted to explain. I—when ... It was sitting in the snow, and— The spoft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder.

Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?

process, said I, starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It may well be that several explanations remain, in which case one tries test after test until one or other of them has a convincing amount of support.

a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not

Gdyby?my przyj?li wolno?? woli, to ka?da ludzka czynno?? by?aby cudem nienadaj?cym si? wyt?umaczy?: skutkiem bez przyczyny.

How can this be justified?

to make sure that no physical illness could account for any dangerous behavior.

The neurosurgeon had already gone over them in detail.

Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles...

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it. What do we really know about the origin of the Universe? A blank so wide can be filled with myths and legends.

Quando si riuscì, almeno entro una certa misura, a dare una prima risposta al problema, risultò, come poi doveva puntualmente ripetersi nel campo degli studi solaristici, che la spiegazione non faceva che sostituire un enigma con un altro, a volte ancor più sconcertante.

The conceit of man was explained by this storm to be the very engine of life. One

I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. "Explanations?" I bellowed. "Explanations? There's your explanation…there!" I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it's a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn't sometimes work.

That's why I love talking and teaching: the act of reproducing ideas out loud reinforces them in the head. If, every time you read a complex book or idea, you had to explain it to someone else, you'd never forget it.

A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements. It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.

But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we come from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way.

If so, we might be able to use them for rapid travel around the galaxy or travel back in time. Of course, we have not seen anyone from the future (or have we?) but I discuss a possible explanation for this.

No entanto, a da tartaruga não é uma boa teoria científica porque prevê que as pessoas devem ser capazes de cair pela beirada do mundo. A experiência mostra que as coisas não são assim, a menos que venhamos a descobrir que essa é a explicação para as pessoas que supostamente desapareceram no Triângulo das Bermudas!

For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature.