Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

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

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

You don't need an explanation for everything Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

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.

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

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

The most important training though is to experience life as a writer questioning everything inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that all the other things will come if you don't there's no hope for you.