“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.” MindMadeReasonSeemsBeliefIgnoranceSimplicityConvictionImpressionAttributesFacility Author:Michel de Montaigne
“The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.” WholeWould BeBeliefGivenVirtueTakenTheoryDegreesRelationStructurePropertySimplicitySensitiveHypothesisConservatismBelief SystemsConfirmationMetrics Author:Jerry Fodor
“The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.” MeanEvilBeliefSimplicityAbsurdRadicalUselessArticlesRemedyMeanness Author:Theodor Mommsen
“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.” BelieveArtIdeasArtistBeliefWaitingSimpleSimplicityWorks Of ArtGood IdeasBrilliant Ideas Author:W. H. Auden