Quotes about Explanation
He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Life was like a book, Jet thought, but one you would never finish. You would never know how people would wind up; the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and there was no explanation for the way in which fate was meted out as there was in novels.
— Alice Hoffman
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.
— Frank Herbert
Do you think things always have an explanation? Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what's closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
— Alistair Begg
Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure.
— Andrew Murray
what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
— Samuel Johnson
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
— Edith Wharton
How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
— Albert Einstein
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.
— Richard Swinburne
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.
— Rick Warren