The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
William of Occam
Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d’un art.
Charles Baudelaire
The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
If I had been born ugly, you would never have heard of Pelé.
George Best
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
xkcd.com