Lisa Randall Quotes

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Less is more.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

I do try and keep my scripts quite economical.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

I think the simpler the better.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

Eliminate the superfluous.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.