Niels Bohr

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

Danish Physicist

Karen DeCrow

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

American Activist

John Edgar Wideman

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

American Writer

James Madison

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

American President

Thomas Szasz

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

American Psychologist

Rudolf Hilferding

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

Austrian Economist

Ivan Pavlov

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Russian Psychologist

S.E. Cupp

When you can no longer elucidate the ideas, or when they are too damaging to openly acknowledge, all you can do is simply make threats, demand loyalty.

American Journalist

Michael Behe

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

American Scientist

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

French Philosopher

Usually found in formal, educational, or scholarly discourses, not casual conversations.

Academic Tone

Best used when clarifying challenging concepts that might be hard to grasp.

Complex Ideas

While a useful word, overusing 'elucidate' might sound pretentious; use sparingly.

Avoid Overuse

 Or is this behavior just less rare in orcas than we currently understand it to be? But for a variety of reasons, it's difficult to do the kinds of experimental studies in an animal like an orca, or many of these other large mammals, that might elucidate those kinds of questions.

What crows teach us...

 return to that with just that background of our species and the planet there are two ways really of thinking about about this and one comes from an understanding of the evolutionary mechanism as elucidated

Tim Flannery: Here on...

 of DNA was elucidated, a single experiment involving fancy versions of household materials enabled deep insight into the basic architecture of the cell.

Elucidate