(232 quotes found)
“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
Eugene Ionesco
“There's always an explanation but you don't always need to know it.”
Moe Farrington
“Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.”
Will Rogers
“The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.”
David Deutsch
“The generally accepted explanation for the Miracle was that it had been just that: an act of divine intervention on a colossal scale ... An event had taken place in defiance of everything commonly accepted as natural law; it had fundamentally transformed a generous portion of the EarthÕs surface in a single night. It's only precedents were Biblical.”
Charles Wilson
“A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.”
C. E. Ayres
“We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator.”
Henry Morris
“It was a [tough] call, but it doesn't really provide an explanation for what happened after that.”
Craig Counsell
“I don't have an explanation or excuse for it. They played better than we did and we weren't very good. That makes it 8-2.”
Cory Sarich
