ABSTRACT
Where this well-known saying comes from, I do not know. It is, however, one of those maxims that appear to present no problems to the unsophisticated, natural man but arouse doubts in the minds of our intellectuals. Why should great achievements be ‘simple’? Surely that cannot apply to the modern age of technology, when endless new discoveries and inventions show the world to be anything but ‘simple’? We have learned how to build machines of an unbelievable complexity – is there not something great about this? In fact, is this not the source of our greatness?
