Quotes About Complexity

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I can calculate everything even the velocity of light But Cannot calculate the Hate of people behind their Smile.

If God created the world, his primary concern was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

Jeder intelligente Narr kann Dinge größer und komplexer machen. Es braucht ein Stück Genialität – und jede Menge Mut -, sich in die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu bewegen.

Hal yang paling sukar dipahami di dunia ini adalah pajak penghasilan.

Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory.

Zna?ajni problemi s kojima se suo?avamo ne mogu biti riješeni na nivou razmišljanja koje je probleme kreiralo.

Keep everything as simple as possible but no simpler.

Science without epistemology is – insofar as it is thinkable at all – primitive and muddled.

It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unifying features of a complex of phenomena which present themselves as quite unconnected to the direct experience of the senses.

However we select from nature a complex (of phenomena) using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate...But I do not doubt that the day will come when that description (the general theory of relativity), too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that that this process of deepening the theory has no limits.

Why is it that everyone likes me, yet no one understands me?

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

Apenas se puede negar que el objetivo supremo de toda teoría es hacer los elementos básicos tan simples y tan poco numerosos como sea posible, sin renunciar a la representación adecuada de un simple dato