“… the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
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English mathematician and philosopher 1861–1947Related quotes
"Holmes-Pollock Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932" (2nd ed., 1961), p. 109.
Often quoted as "I wouldn't give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of complexity" and attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
1930s
Source: The Fractalist (2012), Ch. 29, p. 299
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”
“There is an abundance of power to be found in simplicity.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 53
“Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.”
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”
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“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974) by Frank E. Manuel, p. 120, as quoted in Socinianism And Arminianism : Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, And Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe (2005) by Martin Mulsow, Jan Rohls, p. 273.
As quoted in God in the Equation : How Einstein Transformed Religion (2002) by Corey S. Powell, p. 29
Variant: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.