#explanation

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. ↗

— Will Rogers

#explanation #me #one-third #practice #two-thirds

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation. ↗

— Javier Cuadros

#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#correct #establishment #explanation #former #hypothesis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#explanation #justification #reason

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#explanation #failure #matters #needs #success

Good luck needs no explanation. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#good #good luck #luck #needs

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#alternative #argument #because #could #examine

A word is a lot. ↗

— Etgar Keret

#life #love #monologue #life

When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.' ("The Basilisk") ↗

— R. Murray Gilchrist

#life #love #life

There has to be new words to explain new worlds. ↗

— Toba Beta

#inspirational #life #new #truth #words