“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Varied Types (1903)
“[T]heoretical considerations and derivations … are always based on severe simplifications of the assumptions.”
As quoted by Tessa Maurer, Elizabeth O'Grady, Ellen Tung, "Inverse Hanging Membrane: The Naturtheater Grötzingen" http://shells.princeton.edu/Grotz.html ( 2013) Evolution of German Shells Forms: Efficiency of Form, Princeton University Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 6.
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“We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.”
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“Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive.”
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949) British writer and journalist
Skye High (1937) p. 240.
Jules Verne book From the Earth to the Moon
L’astre des nuits, par sa proximité relative et le spectacle rapidement renouvelé de ses phases diverses, a tout d’abord partagé avec le Soleil l’attention des habitants de la Terre.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Holy Dimension", p. 337.
Heschel made similar statements in earlier writings: The great insight is not attained when we ponder or infer the beyond from the here. In the realm of the ineffable, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion (1951)
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: In the realm of faith, God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. To rationalists He is something after which they seek in the darkness with the light of their reason. To men of faith He is the light.
Alistair Cameron Crombie (1915–1996) Australian zoologist, historian of science
Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)
