Simplification Quotes

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The simplification of anything is always sensational. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
Sometimes the best solution is simplification. — Bobby Bragan
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
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
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey
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
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
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
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
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
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. — Dalia Mogahed
Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device. — Donald A. Norman
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
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. — Gustav Stickley
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
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
Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do. — Jonathan Ive

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