Correspondance
“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.”
“Parfois, les questions sont compliquées et les réponses simples.”
Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire, 1782
“Je vais vers l'Orient compliqué avec des idées simples.”
Conversation entre De Gaulle et Couve de Murville le [11, octobre, 1963] rapportée par Alain Peyrefitte.
La structure de la théorie de l'évolution, Chapitre 3 les germes de la théorie hiérarchique, 1_ Lamarck est la naissance de l'évolution moderne sur la base d'une théorie invoquant deux types de facteurs
“C'est le destin de la ruse que de paraître trop simple à des savants trop naïfs”
[...] we have always had (secret, secret, close the doors!) we have always have had a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the youngest students...you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there is no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
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