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Kilde:

Tillagt Einstein.

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Engelsk:

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Tysk:

Mache die Dinge so einfach wie möglich - aber nicht einfacher.

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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.

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