Simplicity Quotes - Page 27

• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
  There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Truth, Science, Simple

  "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 158, 1996.

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• The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

  Eugene Wigner

  Nature, Science, Simple

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.283, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

  Charles-Francois Dupuis

  Believe, Errors, People

  Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.270, Lulu.com

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• Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Self, Organization, Religion

  Victor J. Stenger (2010). “God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist”, p.132, Prometheus Books

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• There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Heart, Laughing

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, October 9, 1888.

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• God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

  Meister Eckhart

  Philosophical, Soul, Process

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Thinking, Order

  iOS 7 product video, shown at WWDC, 2013.

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• Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Goal, Trying

  "Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple". Interview with Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 23, 2012.

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• Truth defies simplicity.

  John Green

  Real

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• In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

  Karl Popper

  Views, Moral, Clarity

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• The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sacrifice, Men, Discipline

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• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

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• Nature loves simplicity and unity.

  Johannes Kepler

  Unity, Consciousness, Nature Love

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• Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

  Clement Mok

  Inspirational Life, Simple, People

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• As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

  Dan Millman

  Sea, Water, Mind

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.124, New World Library

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• A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

  Dennis Ritchie

  Language, Computer, Program

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• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Mean, Satisfaction

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• To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  George Earle Buckle

  Success, Writing, Plain And Simple

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• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Language, Intense

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• The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Reading, Book

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• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Writing, Hype

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• My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Humanity, Four

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• Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Unique, Games, Play

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