The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (1833)

Source: https://archive.org/details/maximsreflection00goet/page/152/mode/2up

Topics: simplicity, complexity