“We have the proof that our disagreement with the U. A. R. is more than a simple misunderstanding.”
Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) Tunisian politician
“For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.”
— Virginia Woolf, book The Waves
Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)
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Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
“That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?” a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in New York Times (22 Apr 1955), 24
1940s
Variant: That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.
“That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. ”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
В ответ на вопрос, почему люди смогли создать атомное оружие, но не могут установить контроль над ним
“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in Nobel Prize Winners (1991) by Lisa F. Dewitt.
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
Ian Stewart (1945) British mathematician and science fiction author
Source: The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
Letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 135
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1941) American writer and activist
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 1
