4 Alfred North Whitehead Quotes on Simplicity

Alfred North Whitehead quotes on simplicity

4. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'

5. We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.

66. Common sense is genius in homespun.

71. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.