#explanation

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#antique #dogma #explanation #lore #mythology

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

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

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

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

— Russell Crowe

#explanation #how #mathematical #tie

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

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#every #every time #explanation #looking #machiavelli

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#behavior #explanations #human #human behavior #left