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Nader75 Posted 18 years ago
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May you clarify these two sentence . the meaning is not clear for me.

May you clarify these two sentence . the meaning is not clear for me.

1- "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler" A. Einstein



2 - "I'm playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order." Eric Morecambe
  

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«Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler» Einstein means over-simplification. -M. field, the simplified vesion is considered even more correct.

— Ant_222

  • «Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler» Einstein means over-simplification.
  • -M.
  • field, the simplified vesion is considered even more correct.
  • However, one may overlook some nuance and over-simplify things — in a physical model, for example thus creating an incorrect (simpler than possible) model, because the modelled phenomenon is actually more complicated.
  • That's what Einstein warns the reader about!
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«Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler»

Einstein means over-simplification. For example, the modern version of Maxwell equations is way simpler than Maxwell's original version, but since the main-frame science does not accept the scalar component of the E.-M. field, the simplified vesion is considered even more correct.

However, one may overlook some n
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Personally, I think Einstein was being ironically humorous. How can something be made "simpler" when it is already "as simple as possible"? That's impossible.
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>May you clarify these two sentence

COULD you clarify these two SENTENCES?

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