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Charles Mingus
(22 Apr 1922 - 5 Jan 1979)
American jazz musician who was a bass virtuoso, composer, leader of a sextet active in the 1960s. Earlier, he played in the band with Louis Armstrong (1941-43) and was associated with other jazz greats.
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Science Quotes by Charles Mingus (2 quotes)
Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
— Charles Mingus
In David Pressman. Patent it Yourself (2008), 37.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus
As quoted, without citation, in Richard D Pepperman, The Eye is Quicker (2004), xv.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
