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This sounds like Einstein the mythical quote-originator, rather than the human scientist. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ https://quot
by Y_Y 5y ago
This sounds like Einstein the mythical quote-originator, rather than the human scientist. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/
All the same it's a good aphorism.
See also:
> "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
- kwhitefoot 5y agoAlso: C.A.R. Hoare: “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”
- nfw2 5y agoApparently this is what Einstein has been documented saying: "...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." So I guess the supposed quote is paraphrasing.
- Y_Y 5y agoIt's certainly got the same vibe. I certainly don't want to begrudge Einstein credit here. If you have the dubious honour of knowing physics and German, then reading his work (e.g. [0]) will leave you in no doubt that he was a shining exemplar of this principle. He does get a ton of stuff misattributed to him though. [0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.19053220806 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/andp.19053220806