Quotes About Simple Explanations

#1. Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

Tad Williams

#2. I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Peter Weir

#3. Many self-help books give you these neat, tidy formulas that are really illusions. They dupe people into thinking, 'Well if I can just do that, then everything's going to be okay.' My work differs in that I don't offer quick solutions and simple explanations.

John Bradshaw

#4. Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

Mick Jagger

#5. Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Stephen Hawking

#6. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!

Paul Lockhart

#7. If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

Fareed Zakaria

#8. My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

Joyce Meyer

#10. Make your point but don't stab anyone with it.

Lisi Harrison

#11. They tear each other apart. Sometimes there aren't any happy endings or logical explanations and we just have to accept that and move on. Sometimes it really is that simple.

Sarah Ockler

#12. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Tony Robbins

#13. Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process.

Jael McHenry

#14. None of them seriously believed the stories they told themselves about themselves.

Stepan Chapman

#15. Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#16. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead