Simplification Quotes
67 quotes by 56 authors
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of…
— Lord Kelvin
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The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they…
— Karl Popper
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Sometimes the best solution is simplification.
— Bobby Bragan
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He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious…
— Max Euwe
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Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me…
— Hans Wegner
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Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
— Edward Abbey
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Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than…
— Joan Miro
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The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with…
— Milton H. Erickson
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In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without…
— Alexander Alekhine
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
— Dalia Mogahed
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Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
— Donald A. Norman
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Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
— Eric Hoffer
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
— Gustav Stickley
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of…
— Gustav Stickley
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.
— Jonathan Ive
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