aim science seek simplest explanations complex facts. apt fall error t — Alfred North Whitehead, Concept Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered Trinity College, 11/1919

11/1919 Alfred North Whitehead The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College

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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919

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