Erwin Chargaff Quotes

There is a reason for everything.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

I'm here to make sense.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

There's always a reason for everything.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Every why has a wherefore.