Brute cunning, not intellectual rigor, motivate this absurd modern myth. The Heliocentric Theory was superior not because of its greater predictive power. Until the Kepler refined Copernicus, the complex circles within circles of Ptolemy predicted movement of celestial bodies well. Each of these great jumps in human understanding took the complex and made it simple. Scientists instinctively search for common rules, simple definitions, and the consolidation of a huge and growing zoo of subatomic particles.
Simplicity is the absence of the unnecessary.
The sculptor removed everything from the marble which was not the physical image of David. Frank Lloyd Wright conceived designs that eliminated fluff and left only exquisite form to match function. Look closely for the irrelevant frames in the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles. These motion picture directors plotted every camera angle, every line, every essence with purpose. Emily Dickinson moves our hearts because she is brief and direct.