“One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.”

—  Josiah Willard Gibbs

From Gibbs's letter accepting the Rumford Medal (1881). Quoted in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London, 1994).

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