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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

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