We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. Gunnar Myrdal
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
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Friedrich Nietzsche
Who does not understand a look, cannot understand long explanations. Arabic Proverb
An ounce of lying saves tons of explanations. Swedish Proverb