The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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