George Musser, Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time... (2015) p. 44.
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In whatever they focus on, physicists seek the simplicity in complexity and the unity in diversity. Like philosophers, their intellectual siblings, they are driven by the conviction that the universe is within the human power to understand and that if you look beneath its variety and intricacy, you will find comprehensible rules.

— George Musser on Unification in science and mathematics

What It Means

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About George Musser

George Musser (born 1965) is a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine in New York and the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory.