Chapter XIX: Elegance And Complexity | The Philosophy Of Science by Steven Gussman [1st Edition]
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." – Charles Darwin I “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” – Attributed to Albert Einstein II In philosophy of science, elegance (a term most commonly associated with the field of physics) is an important concept to get right, and there are many ways to misunderstand it. Eleg...