[u-u] Source of quotation

[Derek Marshall]

"You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it
right, it is obvious that it is right—at least if you have any
experience—because usually what happens is that more comes out than
goes in. ...The inexperienced, the crackpots, and people like that,
make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they
are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students,
make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it
is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns
out to be simpler than you thought."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman




On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Greg A. Woods <woods at weird.com> wrote:
> At Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:25:54 -0400, arocker at Vex.Net wrote:
> Subject: [u-u] Source of quotation
>>
>> I found the source of the quotation about design that I offered last night:
>>
>> Antoine Saint-Exupery: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26979.html
>
> I'll have to add that to my quotes file next to a similar one by
> Einstein about simplicity, written in about the same time:
>
>     It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make
>     the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without
>     having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of
>     experience.
>         -- Albert Einstein
>         From  On the Method of Theoretical Physics,  the Herbert Spencer
>         Lecture, Oxford, June 10, 1933.
>
>
> The more pithy version of Einstein's quote is apparently better
> attributed to a paraphrasing by Sessions:
>
>     I also remember a remark of Albert Einstein, which certainly applies to
>     music.  He said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it
>     can be but not simpler!
>         -- Roger Sessions
>         The New York Times, January 8, 1950
>          How a  Difficult  Composer Gets That Way
>
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