Simplicity
“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” —Albert Einstein, 1933
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05004-4
Then again there are …
The “Physicists’ Credo: “Be accurate, avoid excess precision.”;
The Engineers’ Credo: “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”;
“Simplify, simplify, simplify!” —Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
"One 'simplify' would have sufficed." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera
Posted on palindrome day, 24-02-2024
Simplicity
“It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.” —Albert Einstein, 1933
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05004-4
Then again there are …
The “Physicists’ Credo: “Be accurate, avoid excess precision.”;
The Engineers’ Credo: “Keep It Simple, Stupid!”;
“Simplify, simplify, simplify!” —Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
"One 'simplify' would have sufficed." —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera
Posted on palindrome day, 24-02-2024