Quotes About Simplicity

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

If the answer is simple, God is speaking.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

God always takes the simplest way.

Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler.

It is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy

I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

Keep everything as simple as possible but no simpler.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From disorder, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate...But I do not doubt that the day will come when that description (the general theory of relativity), too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that that this process of deepening the theory has no limits.

Apenas se puede negar que el objetivo supremo de toda teoría es hacer los elementos básicos tan simples y tan poco numerosos como sea posible, sin renunciar a la representación adecuada de un simple dato

A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Lo más incomprensible de universo es que sea comprensible.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Se você não consegue explicar algo de forma simples, você não entendeu suficientemente bem.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.