Friday, July 6, 2012

Friday Quotes XXVII

Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions. ~ Aristotle

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong. ~ Albert Einstein

For as bats' eyes are to daylight so is our intellectual eye to those truths which are, in their own nature the most obvious of all. ~ Aristotle

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exists. Hence the fictions that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles. ~ Bacon

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