Episode 6.06: The Leibniz Project; that an explanation must be simpler than what is explained.

Our human love for simplification, for explanation, for things that try to reduce complex matters to simple matters is a natural extension of the limitations of our intelligence. Where does the notion that we can understand the universe come from? Why do we suppose that knowledge that is less than perfect is thereby somehow worthless? Or that our difficulties in understanding are defects in our personalities?