It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in following the giant courses of the stars, now in scrutinizing the microscope that prodigious smallness which is also a vastness, and now in seeking in geological ages the traces of a past that attracts us because of its remoteness.


Science and Method (1908)


It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in...

It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in...

It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in...

It is because simplicity and vastness are both beautiful that we seek by preference simple facts and vast facts; that we take delight, now in...