#explanation

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 embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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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

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. ↗

— Dave Barry

#almost #anything #came #down #every

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#discussion #educators #expect #explanations #hardly

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#created #each #explanation #gain #having

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #only #performance #promises #reality

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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