One Of The Principal Objects Of Theoretical Research In Any Department Of Knowledge Is To Find The Point Of View From Which The Subject Appears In Greatest Simplicity.

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One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any
department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the
subject appears in greatest simplicity.
-- J. Willard Gibbs, Collected Works, v.1; p. 10.

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