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What made the new astronomy compelling was neither accuracy nor simplicity but that one set of ideas explained three disconnected phenomena at once.

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

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  1. Michael Nielsen

    Physicist, writer and researcher

    And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.

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