"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).
~Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11 1839 – April 28 1903)
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