Best Explanation Quotes

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Never complain. Never explain.

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and what not to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one’s emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications – in order to hide one’s motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one’s cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.

While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Elvis was God-given, there’s no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy – but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

If there’s a God, and we have all this evidence that there’s evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago – what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with – He came up with it, of course – that all things are fakeable.

I’m not an historian but I’ll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents… Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He’s terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren’t, then I’d be a teacher.

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Think about it: you’ve already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something – it’s like Picasso, it’s like Mondrian – it’s not. Art’s supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn’t really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is ‘appropriate’ in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Let’s sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

People think modeling’s mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.

It’s all in the genes: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.

Coincidence. That’s an explanation used by fools and liars.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.