“I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.” PeopleTryingBigsSongSimpleFansTheoryMessagesSimplicityComplicated Author:Graham Russell
“You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful laterand vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.” PeopleThinkingUseBeautifulTheorySimplicityVicesCarefulGuidesBe CarefulVice Versa Author:Lisa Randall
“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.” OrderStepsProgressExpressionTheorySimplicityHypotheticalFraming Book:Miscellaneous Scientific Papers Source: Miscellaneous Scientific Papers
“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 human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.” FeelsMindHumansLightWaitingUnderstandingIgnoranceTheoryAnxietyEvidenceGainsPrejudiceSimplicityDetailsConvictionExperimentsConclusionObservationEncountersHuman MindRestlessReposeSweepingDissatisfiedIndolenceGeneralities Book:Works Source: Works
“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 (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.” BelieveReasonTurnsI BelieveProcessCasesForeverDoubtAtheismTheoryLimitsComplexesSimplicityPositive AtheismSufficientAppropriateTreatmentYieldTheoreticalCriteriaSelectRelativityGeneral Relativity Author:Albert Einstein
“Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.” WellsMightYoungStudentsTheorySimplicityCloudsSymbolsChemistryDiscouragingHebrewLearnersYoung Students Author:John Dalton
“When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.” FallTheoryProvePaperPagesFalling In LoveSimplicityCome UpDetailsCracksSheetsPencilsEleganceProve ItSimplicity And ElegancePaper And Pencil Author:Michio Kaku