If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation those of women by a parity of reasoning will not shrink from the same test.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma that is the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation for us to feel more protected.