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Well, literally, he was saying you can't make things simpler than they can possibly be.

2007-09-05 17:03:24 · answer #1 · answered by justin schwan 3 · 0 0

Ooh, I hadn't heard that one. Nice. Here's what I think:

He meant that we should reduce things about the world - name them, analyze them, use reason and science to show how they come about - to the most basic and elegant ideas we can, in order to understand the nature of the world ... but that when we reach a point where things can't be elegantly reduced anymore, we should accept that they are irreducible. Rather than either pointing to childish explanations (like willful interventionist gods), or trying to come up with complicated, counterintuitive arguments insisting that they can be further still reduced (like much of modern philosophy).

2007-09-05 19:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0 0

He was being kind to all those who loved his ability to communicate difficult ideas that they could never have fathomed otherwise and seeing the virtue of not oversimplifying and unnecessarily overcomplicating things as he also said :
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

2007-09-05 17:15:15 · answer #3 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 3 0

The reference is to Einstein's impatience with the dogmatic reductionism of modernity, especially in the field of science. Just because something is simple, especially in terms of a scientific theory, does not mean that we have everything all figured out. It means not to reduce the profoundity and mystery of our existence to something banal.

2016-03-13 01:55:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

With simplicity thing should be made of parts which are absolutely necessary. If you try to make it more simpler, the thing can not meet its objective.

2014-10-16 19:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it means Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

;) smile

2007-09-05 16:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Trying to get simpler gets complicated.

2007-09-08 15:21:34 · answer #7 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 1 0

My way of interpreting this statement is, "Technology should be easy to use for everyone, not a tangle of wires and stuff that we cannot make head nor tail of, but at the same time, it should not be as simple as a battery, a piece of wire, and a lightbulb." Did that make any sense at all?

2007-09-05 17:08:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I think he meant that everything should be functional, but not dumbed-down.

If everything was easy, nothing would be worth anything!

2007-09-05 16:57:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

my answer is this: everything should be normal but not lesser. we should make everything understandable, but not wrong.

this anser is an example: simple, but not stupid

2007-09-05 22:44:17 · answer #10 · answered by DoubleDigit 3 · 0 0

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