La vida es simple

During the turbulent 13th century, the principle of Occam's razor changed our perception of the world by proving that the simplest answers are often the most accurate. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries -from Copernicus's heliocentric universe to Einstein's quantum mechanics and Watson and Crick's DNA, to Newton's laws and Darwin's theory of evolution- to point out how simplicity has revealed fundamental answers to nature's greatest mysteries. And this is no coincidence: McFadden claims that life could only have arisen by adopting the utmost simplicity. Recasting both the history of science and the origins of our universe, McFadden transforms our understanding of ourselves and our world, and with Life Is Simple he provides a new vision of what science really is.