“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.” ArtFoundProgressFailingPerfectionMethodSimplicityTechniqueReputationPainterCharm Author:Honore de Balzac
“There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” IfsTruthDoubtMeditationPossibilityStudentsMethodFruitSimplicityWhere You AreCan NotDoubt Me Author:Dogen
“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.” FirstsDoeProblemJobsIndividualGivenGoalPiecesParticularGratitudeMajorsSolutionsUltimateMathematicsMethodAssumingSimplicityCreditSolveAdmireEfficientMathematicianObserversEleganceUltimate GoalAccolades Author:Keith Devlin
“Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel.” IfsWayWellsBookWalksOppositesMethodSimplicitySaint Author:Thomas Merton
“I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them.” PeopleIfsKnowsSongAsksPowerfulBehindsGeniusMethodSimplicityBobSongwritersMarley Author:Bruno Mars
“Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'” PeopleIfsKnowsTodaySongAsksPowerfulBehindsGeniusShotsMethodSimplicityRedemptionBobSongwritersSheriffsMarley Author:Bruno Mars
“The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.” IfsWorldMayArtHappensScienceSimpleTheoryDependsAdvantageMethodComplexesSimplicityBeing TrueSystematicScientific MethodDiscerningSimplificationScientific Theory Book:The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery Source: The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism From the Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery
“A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.” MayLongImportantCharacterSuccessProcessSimpleTheoryHigherSucceedMathematicsMethodProfoundSimplicityMathematicalVainCharmArtificialImpressPropositionsDemonstrationConcealedTediousArithmetic Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.” ScienceMethodSimplicityAnalysisRevolutionaryThoroughNothing NewTrustworthiness Author:Justus von Liebig
“Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.” BelieveForceEffortEnemyExampleMathematicsMethodErrorsSimplicityMathProofContraryRigorRigourMathematical Proof Author:David Hilbert
“We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.” WorldHeartAgeFoundChristReligiousAttentionActivityProgramOrganizationMethodLongingSimplicityNervousComplexity Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” MenFirstsWellsMeanTwoImportantIdeasRememberValuesSimpleNumbersEducationPositionGeniusTenAchievementAppreciateIndiaAbsolutesMathematicsMethodProfoundSimplicityAppreciationMathInventionSymbolsMathematicalEaseMeritReceivingGrandeurAntiquityIngeniousArithmeticComputationNumbers And MathGreatest ManGreat Math Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace