Explaining Quotations | Page 3

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.