Quotes on Explanations

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

Author: Erykah Badu

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Author: David Deutsch

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation.

Author: David Kay

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

Author: Michael Polanyi