Zitat des Tages von George M. Whitesides:
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
