John Tuzo Wilson quotes
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“Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.”
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“Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.”
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“I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.”
-- John Tuzo Wilson
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“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”
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“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”
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Source : Alan Sillitoe (1988). “The far side of the street: fifteen short stories”
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“There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!”
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