Quotes About Complexity

Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible.

According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

Feynman once wrote, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

Se chegássemos ao fim da linha, o espírito humano definharia e morreria. Mas não creio que um dia sossegaremos: aumentaremos em complexidade, se não em profundidade, e seremos sempre o centro de um horizonte de possibilidades em expansão.

to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")

Since we know the universe itself was once very small—perhaps smaller than a proton—this means something quite remarkable. It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature. From that moment on, vast amounts of energy were released as space itself expanded—a place to store all the negative energy needed to balance the books.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws.

Many people through the ages have attributed to God the beauty and complexity of nature that in their time seemed to have no scientific explanation. But just as Darwin and Wallace explained how the apparently miraculous design of living forms could appear without intervention by a supreme being, the multiverse concept can explain the fine-tuning of physical law without the need for a benevolent creator who made the universe for our benefit.

We can define life as an ordered system that can keep itself going against the tendency to disorder and can reproduce itself.

It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don't know how the brain works in detail. We do, however, know all about how computer memories work.

A butterfly flapping its wings in Australia can cause rain in Central Park, New York.

Kita malah memecah persoalan itu menjadi potongan-potongan kecil dan menciptakan sejumlah teori yang hanya menjelaskan sebagian. Tiap teori penjelas sebagian itu menjabarkan dan memprediksi sekelompok terbatas pengamatan, mengabaikan akibat besaran-besaran lain.

la mayoría de la gente cree que la ciencia real es demasiado difícil

la mayoría de la gente cree que la ciencia real es demasiado difícil y complicada para que la puedan entender.

information paradox

It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature.

Do the laws governing the universe allow us to predict exactly what is going to happen to us in the future? The short answer is no, and yes. In principle, the laws allow us to predict the future. But in practice the calculations are often too difficult.

We live in bewildering world

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four. Stephen Hawking

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

En cierto modo, la especie humana necesita mejorar sus cualidades mentales y físicas para tratar con el mundo cada vez más complejo que lo rodea y afrontar nuevos desafíos como los viajes espaciales. Y también necesita aumentar su complejidad si los sistemas biológicos deben mantenerse por delante de los sistemas electrónicos. Por el momento, los ordenadores nos aventajan en velocidad, pero no muestran signos de inteligencia.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve.