When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions

The fish will be the last to discover water.

The complexity of systems measured along two axes:
1) the detail and precision required of the scientific description;
2) the number of mechanisms being combined in a particular phenomenon.
The hardest sciences ask detailed questions about systems that are composed of many mechanisms.

https://aeon.co/ideas/when-science-hits-a-limit-learn-to-ask-different-questions

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