In any case, Louis Armstrong was right about it being a wonderful world. Making theories does not make it any less wonderful. Maxwell and ElectromagneticTheory James Clerk Maxwell, by creating his theory of electromagnetism, showed that electrical and magnetic events were actually manifestations of the same basic system. As a bonus, it became clear that electromagnetic waves should exist, and that light is an example of them. Maxwell wrote out his equations in quite a long form, but using vector notations they can be written as four very short equations - in fact they can be made even more concise.
Reductionism is a somewhat unfortunate word.
It sounds negative. The creation of the theory provides immense power thereafter. We wouldn't complain that a poet reduced a beautiful lake-side landscape to a few lines about daffodils and clouds, because we can still see it the way we want to, even after poem has been written. From this reductionist bottleneck comes the possibility of change. An election is rather like this.