Sounds good, but may not be meaningful outside of physics, where by “theory” you usually mean model, and a model can be made simpler or more complex as the occasion demands.
Considering my brain is too small for the universe, making the theory as simple as possible sounds like a good strategy when dealing with hard problems.
It’s a good strategy if “possible” means “not too simple to function correctly”. You can model a human as a point mass affected only by gravity, and this model is presumably too simple for most purposes, but it’s not clear in what sense it’s an impossible model.
“A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Einstein
Sounds good, but may not be meaningful outside of physics, where by “theory” you usually mean model, and a model can be made simpler or more complex as the occasion demands.
Considering my brain is too small for the universe, making the theory as simple as possible sounds like a good strategy when dealing with hard problems.
It’s a good strategy if “possible” means “not too simple to function correctly”. You can model a human as a point mass affected only by gravity, and this model is presumably too simple for most purposes, but it’s not clear in what sense it’s an impossible model.