143 Quotes About Explanation

What I find it's a suprise if I can say this or it's not???- People keep digging in the same stuff in the same answers and trying to find something different. Do you get it?TO success there is one formula, the differences is you want sample, people say it in stage complex!

A word is a lot.

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish.

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

根據我的研究，說明高手比一般人更擅長指引方向。為什麼？我猜是因為他們可以體會第一次抵達某個地點的感受，所以能夠排除自己原已熟悉的事物，專注在駕駛每次轉彎時可能看到的東西上。

There is no sensible way to invoke functional notions as explanatory concepts at the synchronic or ontogenetic level.

Simply put: the easiest and most likely explanation, however mundane, is probably correct.

You do not have to explain to anyone to do the things that give peace to your soul.

Can you explain away love too?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' he said. 'The desire to possess in some, like avarice: in others the desire to surrender, to lose the sense of responsibility, the wish to be admired. Sometimes just the wish to be able to talk, to unburden yourself to someone who won't be bored. The desire to find again a father or a mother. And of course under it all the biological motive.