If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.


Chapter 7, A Battle Among Giants, Reductionism and emergence, p. 54 - Information, The New Language of Science (2003)

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If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance...

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance...

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance...

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance...