#explanation

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#love #mystery #love

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Michael Behe

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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is. ↗

— Russell Crowe

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The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#courts #explanation #find #mindset #place

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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