Full Idea
There is no reason to think that the principles that best organise will be true, nor that the principles that are true will organise much.
Gist of Idea
Good organisation may not be true, and the truth may not organise very much
Source
Nancy Cartwright (How the Laws of Physics Lie [1983], 2.5)
Book Reference
Cartwright,Nancy: 'How the Laws of Physics Lie' [OUP 2002], p.53
A Reaction
This is aimed at the Mill-Ramsey-Lewis account of laws, as axiomatisations of the observed patterns in nature.