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“Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.”

World Mind Ideas Nations Simple Clear Greater Complexes Conception Precise Greater Power

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.”

May Language Simple Greater Effects Symbols

Book:Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”

“National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.”

People Ifs Made War States Facts Would Be Wanted Wish Simple Leader Greater Europe Germany Rulers Socialist Distress Recognise No War

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.”

Simple Greater Statements

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-forming coral zoophytes, as has been shown, cannot grow at greater depths than 100 or 120 feet; and therefore in seas deeper than this, the formation or growth of reefs over the bottom is impossible.”

Has Beens Facts Grows Growth Simple Greater Growing Impossible Sea Feet Ocean Negative Depth Bottom Deeper Formation Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:James Dwight Dana

“Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!”

Simple Greater Complicated Simple Things Greater Power Complicated Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!”

People Thinking May Reason Next Simple Greater Generations Possibility Goodness Ethics Currents Welfare Next Generation Current Generation Good Ethics

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan