So what the world looks like? Is it a simple symmetric that will charm you or it is higgledy-piggledy mess of complex events that just seemed to win out over another in the long run. But deep in our mind, we always seek for simplicity-symmetry-patterns-analogy. We might define science as a search for those patterns. We are not content simply to acquire a record of everything, that is, or has ever happened, like cosmic stamp collectors. Instead, we look for patterns in the facts, and some of the patterns we have come to call as the laws of nature and other have achieved the status of by-laws.
We, scientists, are not in search for unification of patterns; we are in search of wire that connects the patterns. The laws of electromagnetism alone are insufficient to explain the working of a brain. We need to know how it is wired up and its circuits inter-connected. No theory of everything unlikely to shed any light upon the complex workings of the human brain or a turbulent waterfall.
Inspired from Seeing Further Edited by Bill Bryson
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