On Simplicity XI (Complexity vs Simplicity III)

"I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." (Oliver W Holmes Jr)

"If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao [nature] is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it." (Stanley Rosenthal)

"It is the last lesson of modern science that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity." (Ralph W Emerson)

"It would be simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things." (Carl G Jung)

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." (Winston S Churchill) 

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." (Thor Heyerdahl) 

"Simplicity is complexity resolved." (Constantin Brancusi)

"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity." (Douglas Horton)

"The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts." (Tom Robbins)

"The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it." (Oliver W Holmes Jr.)

"[...] the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity." (Alfred N Whitehead)

"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful." (Douglas N Adams)