Isaac Newton Quotes

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

I think the best answer is as little as possible.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

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

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary, i.e., the fewer assumptions an explanation of a phenomenon depends on, the better the explanation

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

It is much more rewarding to do more with less.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

The best plans are always the simplest.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose-from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box-there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded.