We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.
There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious. " "I was laughing. " "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit. " "Derisively," I explained.
The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.
Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it. ' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
The common belief that. . . the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility. . . is not only historically inaccurate, but actually a caricature so grotesque that what needs to be explained is how it could possibly have achieved any degree of respectability.
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
There are many things in life that cannot be explained.
Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.
What can be explained is not poetry.