Josiah Willard Gibbs Quote

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


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


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

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

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

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