LIFE IS SIMPLE: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Takes readers on a sweeping tour of more than 2,000 years of science to show that Occam's insight doesn't make scientific ideas better: it makes science itself possible. But McFadden goes farther, arguing that Occam's razor may well be part of the laws of the universe, as fundamental to all science as the principle of relativity is to physics. Illus.