Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.

Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

A lot of fighters are counted out after a loss, and it's really what you do afterward that offers an explanation to your career.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

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