143 Quotes About Explanation

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Never try to explain your accomplishments to someone who’s trying to minimize them. Understand what they’re doing, and be aware, no matter what you say, it won’t be good enough.

We are living a life full of first experiences, from a first kiss, to the first time giving blood, to conceptual and philosophical explanations of humanity’s firsts.

Occam's razor.""Yes. When formulating a theory, eliminate as few assumptions as possible. In other words, the simplest explanation is the most likely.

One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy with a view to finding out the explanation.

Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.

The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.

This is a matter of feeling,’ said Misabel. ‘And such things can never be explained.

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.