Quotes About Explanation

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Is it sad that Storm Corrosion needs to be explained to people before they can accept it? I don't think it's sad; I think it's inevitable. I think it's just human nature.

If you'd tried to explain to me what a butterfly was back in the middle of Finland, I'd have grunted sceptically. Then torn your throat open and supped deep on your warm, life-giving blood.

Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War is the culmination of the fifth-century tendency toward the exclusion of divine explanation. Not only does he refuse to admit non-naturalistic causality, but he cynically skewers any attempts on the part of the actors in his story to invoke the gods. Whatever his own personal beliefs were, the History can reasonably be claimed to be the earliest surviving atheist narrative of human history.

Por qué hacer el esfuerzo de explicar por qué algo no sirve si los demás no han hecho los deberes para comprobar si sirve?»

Science is all metaphor.

Without a biblical model to explain the place relationships should have in your life, you will likely experience imbalance, confusion, conflicting desires, and general frustration.

Rather than defining facts or generating interpretations, we are seduced by the notion of hidden realities and dark conspiracies that explain everything.

Explanations of thoughts as the product of some deeper force such as the soul, he felt, were really the realm of metaphysics.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

I am not a Pessimist. Indeed I am not sure that I quite know what Pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, it cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

That certainly seems a satisfactory explanation, does it not? – Yes dear, if you can believe him. – I don't. But that does not affect the wonderful beauty of his answer.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.

Nunca des explicaciones, tus amigos no las necesitan y tus enemigos no las creen

I must explain Henry early, to avoid disappointment.

if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologise and go away.

Any explanation of war neurosis must account for the fact that this apparently intensely masculine life of war and danger and hardship produced in men the same disorders that women suffered from in peace. So