Quotes About Oversimplification

#1. With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.

Richard Courant

#2. At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

Alan Greenspan

#3. It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

Jedediah Purdy

#4. We've all heard that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but that is a dangerous oversimplification. Many of the things that don't kill you can damage you for life.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

Gudjon Bergmann

#6. Until you hear "No," you haven't been turned down.

Reid Hoffman

#7. Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

Dorothy Day

#8. If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

Wendell Berry

#9. Cannibals need love too.

Kresley Cole

#10. All theories are oversimplifications, or at least lead to oversimplification.

Neil Postman

#11. Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Karl Popper

#12. Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense."
"I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.

Ilona Andrews

#13. Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

James Morcan

#14. I don't want know you because if I know you, I might like you

Pushpa Rana

#15. That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you.

Jonathan Kellerman

#16. Love is at once always absurd and never absurd; the more grotesque its form, the more love itself confers a certain dignity on the circumstances of those it torments.

Anthony Powell

#17. Westernization is an often-used word in Korea, and can be applied to something considered cold, lacking in jeong, and going against traditional Korean values. To suggest that Korean households are now "Westernized," whatever that may mean exactly, would be a gross oversimplification.

Daniel Tudor

#18. What I really don't like is oversimplification.

Thomas J. Sargent

#19. since they deal with matters that are the centre of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent upon oversimplification.

Sidin Vadukut

#20. The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

Robert Bork

#21. In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Neal Shusterman

#22. Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.

N. T. Wright