Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.


The Open Universe : An Argument for Indeterminism (1992), p. 44


Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.