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Albert Einstein on Simplicity

1879–1955

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

A theory is the more impressive, the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more diverse things it connects, and the wider its scope

Autobiographical Notes (1949)

I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Why Socialism? (1949)

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Einstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.