Quotes About Simplicity

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

A busy life is a wasted life.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.