 | Noretta Koertge - 2005 - 256 Seiten
...operate. For Newton, conceptual simplicity played an important role. His first rule of philosophy read, "Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes" (quoted in Holton 1998, xxxii). Einstein considered symmetry and unification to be more than aesthetic... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 Seiten
...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. [Principia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), p. 398] Lawyers and judges become accustomed,... | |
 | Jong-Ping Hsu, Dana Fine - 2005 - 664 Seiten
...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. RULE II, Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 442 Seiten
...that counsel in mind we can now turn to Smith's own "scientific" practice. Ill According to Newton, "Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes" so the first rule of reasoning in natural philosophy is: admit only such causes as are "true and sufficient... | |
 | Igor Kononenko, Matjaz Kukar - 2007 - 484 Seiten
...description length principle // is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer. — William ofOckham Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton Make it as simple as possible - but not simpler! — Albert Einstein When searching... | |
 | Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, Bruce Edmonds - 2007 - 359 Seiten
...causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes." [Ref. 1, page 3]. Einstein chose the simplest possible system of tensor equations to formalise his... | |
 | Julian Havil - 2007 - 228 Seiten
...influenced by estimates of area based on a variant of Buffon's principle. Newton's words have resonance: Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. But then, with so much needle tossing to do, so have those of Buffon himself: Never think that God's... | |
 | Richard Olson - 2008 - 370 Seiten
...causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances ... for nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes," 16 virtually all of the sensationalist/associationists drew the notion that the explanations for natural... | |
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. 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... 
