143 Quotes About Explanation

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.

I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people.

Life can take you up and put you down at any time but just remember you don't owe anyone an explanation. Just move forward and let your obstacles become your opportunities.

Where the facts themselves are highly interesting, the explanation of them must be still more so.

Mummy, I think I might understand if only you wouldn't explain.

I love it," I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations.

Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan.- Said by Dr. Asa Breed; chapter 15

Explanations , if not convincing, are taken as excuses.

Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.