Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy