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928. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Truth & Simple & Good) Leo Tolstoy
2,369. Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. (Logic & Science & Nature & Mathematics & Thought & Simplicity) Edward Teller, The Pursuit of Simplicity
2,603. Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler. (Science & Simplicity) Albert Einstein
2,410. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification – the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit. (Science & Simplicity) Karl Popper, The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism 1992 p44
9,776. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. (Art & Simplicity) Walt Whitman
11,587. I’m a simple man, and I use simple materials. (Art & Simplicity) L S Lowry
48,773. Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness. (Physics & Simplicity) Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
53,246. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. (Existence & Simplicity & Explanation & Reason) William of Occam, ‘Occam’s Razor’ attributed
88,462. I have revered always not crude verbosity, but holy simplicity. St Jerome
88,464. The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Psalms 116:6
88,465. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. (Simplicity & Words) Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
88,466. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
88,467. The greatest ideas are the simplest. (Simplicity & Idea) William Golding, Lord of the Flies
88,468. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child; I can’t make head nor tail of it. (Simplicity & Understanding) Duck Soup 1933 starring Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx & Chico Marx & Zeppo Marx & Margeret Dumont & Louis Calhern & Raquel Torres & Edgar Kennedy & Edmund Breese & Edwin Maxwell & William Worthington et al, director Leo McCarey, Rufus in Chamber of Deputies
88,471. I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. Henry David Thoreau
88,469. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
88,470. The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
88,472. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. Isaac Newton
88,473. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
88,474. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. (Simplicity & Vanity) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
88,475. Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
88,476. Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frédéric Chopin
72,675. Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. (Fashion & Simplicity) Coco Chanel
88,477. Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty. (Simplicity & Beauty & Nature) Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law
88,463. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci, attributions & variations
88,478. ‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright
74,910. Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. (Golf & Simple) Arnold Palmer