When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.

" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:

Abbas was an intelligent prince, possessed some literary taste, and is noteworthy on account of the comparative simplicity of his life.

* The sea slug Aplysia was chosen by Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist Eric Kandel as a model for studying the cellular basis of learning and memory, because of the simplicity and accessibility of its nervous system, and it has been examined in hundreds of experiments.

While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.

Christian monasticism was born in Egypt and was instrumental in the formation of the Coptic Orthodox Church character of submission, simplicity and humility, thanks to the teachings and writings of the Great Fathers of Egypt's Deserts.

The spire was designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, who sought an " Elegant and dynamic simplicity bridging art and technology ".

Fermi was well known for his simplicity in solving problems.

He was also known to be an inspiring teacher at the University of Chicago, and was known for his attention to detail, simplicity, and careful preparation for a lecture.

A constant obsession for Fox was the pursuit of " simplicity " in life, meaning humility and the abandonment of luxury, and the short time he spent as a shepherd was important to the formation of this view.

He was especially impressed with the elegant simplicity of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo.

He was noted for his ability as a bandleader and songwriter to blend the simplicity and drive of R & B with the rhythmic complexity and precision of jazz.

This was not originally doctrinal ; when it later took up matters of dogma, as in the teaching concerning transubstantiation, the purpose was the return to original simplicity in the government of the Church.

However, it appeared to strike a happy medium between simplicity and flexibility, and was rapidly adopted for many other uses.

Later in life he claimed that the priority of simplicity and dependability in his designs was influenced by principles he had gained from reading of Russian literature and the Bible.

The great charm of Maecenas in his relation to the men of genius who formed his circle was his simplicity, cordiality and sincerity.

Unlike some of his predecessors, he was to lead a faultless personal life, becoming a model for his simplicity of life.

The PDP-8 was optimized for simplicity of design.

Again, the weighing of evidence and importance of new data was fit through the human sieve: some scientists found the simplicity of Einstein's equations to be most compelling, while some found them more complicated than the notion of Maxwell's aether which they banished.

While there are critical debates on the construction of prose, its simplicity and loosely defined structure has led to its adoption for the majority of spoken dialogue, factual discourse as well as topical and fictional writing.

Today, they are still relatively common, especially where cross-platform compatibility and simplicity are deemed more critical than advanced functionalities.

The critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe who preached greater technical perfection, and especially greater simplicity and purity in vocabulary and versification, was a sober correction to the luxuriant importation and innovation of Pierre de Ronsard and La Pléiade, but the lines of praise by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux beginning Enfin Malherbe vint (" Finally Malherbe arrived ") are rendered only partially applicable by Boileau's ignorance of older French poetry.

However, a public performance in early 1846 met with public indifference and critical snubs for the oratorio's artlessness and simplicity.

Guilford College, founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), is an independent college whose stated mission is to: " provide a transformative, practical and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by Quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem-solving skills, experience, enthusiasm and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world.

An open-loop controller is often used in simple processes because of its simplicity and low cost, especially in systems where feedback is not critical.

Because of their simplicity of use and the ability to provide continuous and immediate oxygen saturation values, pulse oximeters are of critical importance in emergency medicine and are also very useful for patients with respiratory or cardiac problems, especially COPD, or for diagnosis of some sleep disorders such as apnea and hypopnea.

Although web template reusability is also important for even highly-skilled and technically experienced developers, it is especially critical to those who rely on simplicity and " ready-made " web solutions.

The single " Toxic Girl " brought Bøe's music to the attention of fans and received critical acclaim for its unpretentious simplicity and lyrical quality.

Advantages of the linear trap design are increased ion storage capacity, faster scan times, and simplicity of construction ( although quadrupole rod alignment is critical, adding a quality control constraint to their production.

Moreover, Peter Gay describes Erasmus as “ a true classical spirit in his search for clarity and simplicity, a modern in complexity, an ancestor of the Enlightenment in his critical temper and pacific cosmopolitanism.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

The wife, Amra, and her lover are both savagely portrayed, she as incarnate sensuality, `` voluptuous '' and `` indolent '', possibly `` a mischief maker '', with `` a kind of luxurious cunning '' to set against her apparent simplicity, her `` birdlike brain ''.

This is done for simplicity of commands and to bring the hidden redundancy up to where misunderstanding has almost zero possibility.

Another contrast stressed when discussing Ptolemaic vs. Copernican astronomy, turns on the idea of simplicity.

Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.

But ' simplicity ' here refers to systematic simplicity.

Hence, noting the simplicity achieved in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another reason for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another reason beyond its systematic superiority.

Because of the simplicity of the molecules, isotopic exchange reactions between elemental halogens and the corresponding carbon tetrahalides would appear to offer particularly fruitful possibilities for obtaining unambiguous basic kinetic data.

`` I like his clothes for their drama and simplicity and appreciate the great impact he has on fashion ''.

It is a collection with a custom-design look, offering simplicity with warmth, variety and vitality.

The Couperin `` La Steinkerque '', with its battle music, brevity, wit and refined simplicity, already shakes off Corelli and points towards the mid-century elegances that ended the baroque era.

Its wide use can be attributed to its simplicity of design and manufacture, and the economy of creating it.

Because of its simplicity, star hopping is a very common method for finding objects that are close to naked-eye stars.

Marked by dignified simplicity, they served as a fruitful model for later times.

Communities either could not afford music accompaniment or rejected it out of a Calvinistic sense of simplicity, so the songs were sung a cappella.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

He became famous for the simplicity of his way of living and his acute observations on the institutions and customs of the Greeks.

No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.

For simplicity, we shall here use the shorthand notation for representing the over operator.

The only material improvement, however, is the substitution of a support more suitable to the simplicity of the art.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.

Aesthetic considerations such as symmetry and simplicity are used in areas of philosophy, such as ethics and theoretical physics and cosmology to define truth, outside of empirical considerations.