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Nature is pleased with simplicity and has no use for superfluous causes

Drawn from what Isaac Newton said

simplicity
What this subject means

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

What Isaac Newton actually said

  1. Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727)
    To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

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