Simple Explanation Quotes

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

That is simple my friend. Because politics is more complicated than physics.

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

If you can't explain your vote in 30 seconds, its the wrong vote.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Speak to men according to their mental capacities, for if you speak all things to all men, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.