The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
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"The Aim of Science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts" is a phrase that was coined in 1957 by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. He wrote it in his book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter." The goal of science is not to find the most complex theories, but instead, to find the simplest explanations for the facts. The simple ideas are often more accurate than the more complicated ones.

Source: The Concept Of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered In Trinity College, 11/1919

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