Superfluous Quotes

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject, deadening poverty.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.