Bigger Picture Obsession - Puzzle Metaphor

instead of developing a thousand disjoint puzzle pieces, one should reduce the number but fit them together

a formula is like a puzzle piece

the more you have used a puzzle piece the faster you can fit it in

the way you see the puzzle image when you stick together many pieces, you start to understand a scientific field, the more you understand how the different formulas are linked to each other and what they actually say