If nature has offered to produce the maximum effect with minimum causes, it is in all of its laws that it had to solve this major problem. (Augustin-Jean Fresnel)

If nature has offered to produce the maximum effect with minimum causes, it is in all of its laws that it had to solve this major problem.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

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