Quotes about Simplicity

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

God always takes the simplest way.

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

But if God invites and expects all his children—regardless of their age, IQ, education, or resources—to do the same thing—to pray—then prayer has to be simple.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

If the way of spiritual childhood became general, who does not see how easily would be realized the reformation of human society...