Scientists seek simplified descriptive models that capture general principles and generalize beyond the examples used to establish them.

“And it-- what you really want as a scientist is to get to a simplification, a descriptive model where you can say, "Oh, well, I've tested all the apples and the gravity works in such a way on apples.”

“And then-- But I'm modeling this as a universal concept simply so that we know that it works on planets as well," right? And, and so that I wanna understand from you what are the simplifications or, you know, sort of maybe simplifications, maybe insights, maybe actual mathematical or otherwise scientific models that are becoming apparent that are gonna help to reduce all the complexity so that we're able to actually make meaningful-- gain meaningful”

“understanding from these really large data sets.”