Simplest Quotes - Page 7

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Statistics, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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• Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

  Orison S. Marden

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose-from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box-there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded.

  Henry Petroski

  Simple, Names, Purpose

  Henry Petroski (2008). “The Toothpick: Technology and Culture”, p.3, Vintage

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• Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Way, Be Kind, Kind

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• I was thinking how strange it is that water is one of the best, simplest things on this planet, and still with a simple glass of water you can neutralize so many of the greatest technological advances that we provide. Like with my blackberry, I can get in touch with so many people, but if I dip it in a small glass of water I'm completely disconnected.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Simple, Glasses

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• The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Immortal, Subjects

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• The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

  Mark Nepo

  Moving, Plight, Way

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Feb 26, 2015

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• The best idea is the simplest.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas

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• The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)

  Mary Roach

  Dog, Care, Blame

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• Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heart, Moon, Men

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Two, Next

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Trying, Too Much, Way

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.

  Jonathon Keats

  Light, Years, Black

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

  Isaac Newton

  Years, Contemplation

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• It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

  Joseph Sobran

  Men, Law, Liberty

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• If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Forever, Matter, Calling

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.14, Penguin

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• These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!

  Frank Peretti

  Prayer, Eye, Self

  Frank Peretti (2012). “Piercing the Darkness: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not even the simplest man can have the slightest doubt about what they are saying. Further, the world expects of Christians that they will eschew all fuzzy abstractions and plant themselves squarely in front of the bloody face of history. We stand in need of folk who have determined to speak directly and unmistakably and come what may, to stand by what they have said.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Acceptance, Thinking, Ontology

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.190, Harvard University Press

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• The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.

  Julia Marlowe

  Art, Strong, Mean

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• It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

  Raymond Chandler

  This Generation, Generations, Patterns

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Together, Looks, Facts

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• The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

  Pablo Casals

  Years, Achieve, Difficult

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• In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.

  I. A. Richards

  Two, Together, Different

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• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Creating, People

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