Explanation Quotes

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.

~ Aaron Hirsh

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.

~ Kat Lahr

An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.

~ R.a.delmonico

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

~ Frank Watson Dyson

It's not something a kid like you should've gotten ahold of.

~ Shinjirou

Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of gal to me - and I'm so sure that's what she's wearing, so positive of that sartorial fact, I want to bet a million dollars on it. The trouble is, if I'm wrong, I'm wiped out. So I also bet she's wearing knickers that aren't black, but are any one of a whole basket of colours - let's say I put nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars on that possibility: that's the rest of the market; that's the hedge. This is a crude example, okay, in every sense, but hear me out. Now if I'm right, I make fifty K, but even if I'm wrong I'm going to lose fifty K, because I'm hedged. And because ninety-five per cent of my million dollars is not in use - I'm never going to be called on to show it: the only risk is in the spread - I can make similar bets with other people. Or I can bet it on something else entirely. And the beauty of it is I don't have to be right all the time - if I can just get the colour of her underwear right fifty-five per cent of the time I'm going to wind up very rich...

~ Robert Harris

Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.

~ Melyssa Winchester

too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii)

~ Harold G. Henderson

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

~ Alec Wilkinson

The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Explanations are for cowards.

~ J. Ross Clara

In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.

~ Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Everything is complicated if no one explains it to you.

~ Fredrik Backman

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

~ Thomm Quackenbush

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

~ Charles Darwin