There’s a difference between simplicity resulting of breakthrough insight (eg Brahe —> Kepler —> Newton) and simplicity as a fetish for cognitive minimalism. Throwing away “trivial” details because your “values” tell you what is “important” is not insight, it is reductionism.
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physicists like Planck and Einstein really did believe that the universe has some simple beauty to it, whether we can grasp it or not is another question; but beauty and simplicity guided their theorizing.
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