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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Hi

Please help me to understand the quote below by Einstein. Perhaps, he is saying that there is a limit how simple something could be made and when you try to cross that limit you start messing up it. Do I have it right? Please let me know. Thank you.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
  

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Yes, but the stress, I think, is on making things simple. 'But not simpler' seems to me to be a rather jocular logical addendum.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yes, but the stress, I think, is on making things simple.
  • 'But not simpler' seems to me to be a rather jocular logical addendum.
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Yes, but the stress, I think, is on making things simple. 'But not simpler' seems to me to be a rather jocular logical addendum.
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Jackson6612there is a limit how simple something could be made and when you try to cross that limit you start messing up it. Do I have it right?
I believe so. It seems to me that I read something about this quote in a philosophy of science class about a million years ago, and the point was that explanations can do more harm than good if they are too simple, t
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Thank you for the input, CJ.

CalifJimat least as well as I can recollect from the discussion from so long ago.
Would you please tell me in what sense you used the phrase "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
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