Nature Quote by Vlatko Vedral

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!

— Bryan Johnson

“To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let…

— Carolyn J. Rasmus

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

— Simon Sinek

“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply…

— James George Frazer

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

— Jean Baudrillard

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and…

— Cecelia Ahern

In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing…

— Konnie Huq

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Because science carries us toward an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be, its findings may…

— Carl Sagan

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,…

— Susan Meiselas

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all…

— Edsger Dijkstra