Quotes on Simplification

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.