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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A thing is obvious mathematically after you see it.

— Robert Daniel Carmichael

What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty,…

— David Hume

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious;…

— Bob Dylan

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

— Albert Einstein

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

— Albert Einstein

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

— Edward de Bono

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

— Anthony Horowitz

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

— Ben Goldacre

It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to…

— David Hume

That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us.…

— Arthur David Ritchie