#explanation

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#problems

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. ↗

— Fiona Wood

#underwear #art

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#always #been #explanation #man #none

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

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

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

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explanations #failure #good #i #i think

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

#broadest #convincing #dinosaurs #eventually #explanations

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#explanations #harvard #tired #words

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #course #depends #europe #everything