"The conviction that the world has a unified order and can be explained by natural laws." "This notion — that behind nature's manifest diversity there is a simple, unified explanation — can be traced back to the pre-Socratic Thales of Miletus." (Wikipedia)

"The essential point is that deep below the chaos we perceive out there, there is an underlying unified structure. Everything springs from that structure. Get to it and you will crack the mystery of existence, from simple to complex, from electrons to love." (NPR - A Quest For The Unattainable Unification Of Knowledge - review of The Meaning of Human Experience by Wilson)

Term coined by Gerald Holton (?)

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