The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. (Percival Lowell)

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Percival Lowell

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