It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
"On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933).
Maybe NOT everything can be reduced to something a layman can understood. Maybe we need some education to, hopefully somehow, understand something.
I have a Physics PhD. But that not matter because there is a whole world outside there that I dont' know. If I need to know something I have to work to do it.
I have to read. To prepare. I have always try to make things simple but, over the years, teaching from primary school to graduate, I have learnt that it's not
always an easy task, both for the teacher and the pupil, and sometimes that it's not possible. I have not other choice but try hard working.
"You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right—at least if you have any experience—because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in....The inexperienced, the crackpots, and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought." Richard Feynman, as quoted by K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life (1985)
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It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933). Maybe NOT everything can be reduced to something a layman can understood. Maybe we need some education to, hopefully somehow, understand something. I have a Physics PhD. But that not matter because there is a whole world outside there that I dont' know. If I need to know something I have to work to do it. I have to read. To prepare. I have always try to make things simple but, over the years, teaching from primary school to graduate, I have learnt that it's not always an easy task, both for the teacher and the pupil, and sometimes that it's not possible. I have not other choice but try hard working. "You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right—at least if you have any experience—because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in. ...The inexperienced, the crackpots, and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought." Richard Feynman, as quoted by K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life (1985)