Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Simplicity

Quotes about: Simplicity

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation 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.''

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Fall, Science, Simple

  Alfred North Whitehead (1964). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Science, Simplicity

  The Concept of Nature ch. 7 (1920)

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Statistics, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.163, Courier Corporation

• ...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Sides, Found

• Seek simplicity but distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Distrust

• The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Philosopher, Motto

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.104, Cambridge University Press

• Seek simplicity, then distrust.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Simplicity, Distrust

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