Life Is Simple

How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Unlocked the Universe

De: JohnJoe McFadden

Narrado por: Tom Lawrence

Life Is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a 13th-century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world.

We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the best answer to any problem is the simplest. This theory, known as Occam's razor, cut through the thickets of medieval metaphysics to clear a path for modern science. We follow the razor in the hands of the giants of science, from Copernicus to Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Rubin and Higgs. Its success suggests that we live in the simplest possible habitable universe and supports the revolutionary theory that our cosmos has evolved.

By highlighting the very human passion, curiosity, mistakes and struggles of those who were inspired by Occam's razor to create the modern world, JohnJoe McFadden provides new insight into what science is really about. And that the principle of simplicity is as relevant today as ever.

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The first half was quite good

Feels like someone pressed the author to add extra "woke" passages :). The industrial revolution happened in the capitalist patriarchal west and the scientists were wealthy white men - get over it.