Simplicity Quotes

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. — Thomas a Kempis
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to… — Dan Millman
Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy. — Dan Millman
What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity… — Albert Einstein
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things. — Henri Poincare
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way… — Fidel Castro
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.… — Marshall Field
You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly… — Werner Heisenberg
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of… — Benjamin Disraeli
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money. — Christian Dior

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