Quotes About Complexity

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Geometry is the most complete science.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.