One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity. (Josiah Willard Gibbs)

One of the principal objects of theoretical research is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in the greatest simplicity.

Josiah Willard Gibbs

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