Ridley Scott

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

British Director

Caroline Polachek

If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners.

American Musician

Maurice Allais

My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

French Economist

Gregory Bateson

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

British Scientist

Yorgos Lanthimos

Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.

Greek Director

Nancy Cartwright

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

American Actress

David Hepworth

Radio people can't entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don't need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers.

British Journalist

Brian Greene

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

American Physicist

Gad Saad

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

Canadian Scientist

Geoffrey Hinton

A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.

British Psychologist

Use 'explanatory' to make complex things easier to understand.

Making Clear

'Explanatory' often introduces additional information that answers possible questions.

Detail Addition

An 'explanatory' note resolves confusion or adds clarity, not more questions.

Clarification

In academics, 'explanatory' relates to understanding theories or complicated concepts.

Academic Context

In science and academics, 'explanatory' goes beyond definitions to illustrate how something works.

Beyond Definitions

Use 'explanatory' to suggest that a text or speech will help analyze or interpret complex phenomena.

Analysis Aide

 knowledge throughout your life in memories and the point about Bayesian decision theory is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with sensory evidence to generate new beliefs and I put the formula up there I'm not gonna explain to you what that formulas but it's very beautiful and it has real beauty and real explanatory power and

The real reason for...

 is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with your sensory evidence to generate new beliefs. And I've put the formula up there. I'm not going to explain what that formula is, but it's very beautiful. And it has real beauty and real explanatory power.

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 When we see this separateness of wanting, liking and learning, this is where we find an explanatory framework for understanding what researchers call arousal nonconcordance. Nonconcordance, very simply, is when there is a lack of predictive relationship

The truth about unwanted...

 isn't a kind of nasty, carping activity; it's socially useful. But it's also an extremely valuable explanatory tool, because real science is about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position. That's what happens in academic journals,

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 What does that mean? Well, an explanation is an assertion about what's there, unseen, that accounts for what's seen; because the explanatory role of Persephone's marriage contract could be played equally well by infinitely many other ad hoc entities.

David Deutsch: A new way...

 Unlike many of the other factors that we know are associated with aging, for example changes in the physical structure of the brain, that's fiendishly difficult to treat. But that sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory puzzle

Sleep is your superpower...

 what was happening there, in reality. The one physical system, the brain, contains an accurate working model of the other, the quasar. Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model,

David Deutsch: Chemical...

 of another I am reluctant to use that word my colleagues might have different opinion but I think for the most part were reluctant to use the word because it doesn't seem to really give us any extra explanatory information they

Chimps "Mourn"...

 in the explanatory puzzle of aging and Alzheimer's disease is exciting because we may be able to do something about it. What if we could actually augment human sleep and try to improve the quality of that deep sleep in midlife,

What's the connection...

 and then, in some ancestor species of ours, explanatory knowledge. For the first time in the universe, for all we know. Explanatory knowledge is the defining adaptation of our species.