Quotes About Clarity

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

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

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

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

A busy life is a wasted life.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

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

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.