- Johannes Kepler (wikiquote.org)
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 – November 15 1630) was a German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, which provided one of the foundations of Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinSimplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel, interview in Harper’s Bazaar (1923)Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauIt is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
Isaac NewtonTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton