Adjustment Quote by Charles Babbage

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

— Beth Moore

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

— Jon Elster

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she,…

— Paul Klee

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

— John Dewey

I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut

— Andrew Symonds

“Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.”

— Karl Popper

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we…

— Frank P. Ramsey

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

— Philip Green

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves…

— Steven Rose

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

— Richard Dawkins