Quotes About Explanation

Everything short of an explanation of the world as a whole is frustratingly partial. An explanation of the world must include an answer to why the world as a whole is just that way. And the only truly satisfying answer would be: because it's the best of all possible ones.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

I did not bother to explain myself. It would have taken months. Years.

Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and throws it against the force field. It bounces back and lands on the ground, glowing. In a few moments it returns to its original color. "Well, that explains a lot," says Beetee. I look at Peeta and can't help biting my lip to keep from laughing since it explains absolutely nothing to anyone but Beetee.

That explained it. The beautiful, blue light wasn't from another world; it was from Photos Glow-Glow's butt.

Benno knew that trick, too: to keep from telling the truth about what you did do, simply explain all the far worse offenses that you didn't commit.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

In Australia, I almost became a counsellor. At the end of each performance there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all wanted to explain why they left South Africa.

The part of something is missing and the remaining part is itself not able to explain what part is missing.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.

But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

It takes considerable effort to see facts (and remember them) while withholding judgment and resisting explanations. And

I repeat that we are explanation-seeking animals who tend to think that everything has an identifiable cause and grab the most apparent one as the explanation. Yet there may not be a visible because; to the contrary, frequently there is nothing, no even a spectrum of possible explanations.

Author discussed what he calls the narrative fallacy. This refers to our limited ability to look at a sequence of facts without weaving an explanation into them.

Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

For The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.

You are a lucky man; you presented in such a comprehensive way the effect of chance on society and the overestimation of cause and effect. You show how stupid we are to systematically try to explain skills.

Our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.

One may have a million ways to explain things, but the true explanation is unique, whether or not it is within our reach.