
“… the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
"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
“… the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
Source: The Fractalist (2012), Ch. 29, p. 299
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 221
Sometimes presented in paraphrased form, such as "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing" https://books.google.com/books?id=5Za7o6teOHoC&pg=PR18&dq=%22example+is+not+the+main+thing%22+schweitzer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFh4m9vqvMAhUG02MKHRqZDtsQ6AEIMzAE#v=onepage&q=%22example%20is%20not%20the%20main%20thing%22%20&f=false.
God's Own Man (1952)
“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
"A Ruler of Men" Rolling Stones http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3815/3815-h/3815-h.htm (1913)
in Electromagnetism and Its Relation to Relativity, chapter 3 of his book [Principles of electrodynamics, Courier Dover Publications, 1987, 0486654931, 105]
James Gow, A Short History of Greek Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=9d8DAAAAMAAJ (1884) p.308.
Conversations with Derek Walcott (University Press Mississippi, 1996, page.165)
Packer v. Packer [1954] P. 15 at 22.
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