Quotes About Complexity

The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future

For the ten-dimensional universe, however, there are apparemtly millions of ways in which to curl up. To calculate which state the ten-dimensional universe prefers, we need to solve the field theory of strings using the theory of phase transitions, the most difficult problem in quantum theory.

In other words, the reason why the string theory cannot be solved is that twenty-first mathematics has not yet been discovered.

The problem is that while twenty-first-century physics fell accidentally into the twentieth century, twenty-first-century mathematics hasn't been invented yet. It seems that we may have to wait for twenty-first-century mathematics before we can make any progress, or the current generation of physicists must invent twenty-first-century mathematics on their own.

There isn't an equation that can confirm something as self-evident (to us humans) as "muggy weather is uncomfortable" or "mothers are older than their daughters." There has been some progress made in translating this sort of information into mathematical logic, but to catalog the common sense of a four-year-old child would require hundreds of millions of lines of computer code. As Voltaire once said, "Common sense is not so common.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. —ANONYMOUS

The fruit fly has roughly 150,000 neurons in the brain.

Bilim ÅŸüphesiz ki iki taraf? keskin bir k?l?çt?r; çözüme ulaÅŸt?rd??? say?da problem yarat?r, ve yaratt??? her problem bir öncekinden hep daha zordur.

Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was fond of saying that no one really understands the quantum theory. Ironically, although the quantum theory is the most successful theory ever proposed by the human mind

El reconocimiento de patrones, como ya hemos visto, es uno de los principales obstáculos para la inteligencia artificial.

The most complex object in the known universe, brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energise a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.

The universe is as simple as it is or it is not, but humans complicate everything.

And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.

For every soul there are a million harbors. Those who would have you see the infinite as a coin with but two faces are not your friends.

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.

They were arguing about something very complex and important, and neither of them could refute the other. They did not agree with each other in anything, and that made their argument especially interesting and endless.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Wszyscy jesteÅ›my do?? niezrównowa?eni...

Idzie o to, ?e czÅ'owiek, który w gÅ'Ä™bi siebie nie kryje niespodzianki, z reguÅ'y nie bywa interesujÄ…cy.

Jednak?e m?drzy ludzie w tym w?a?nie celu maj? rozum, ?eby si? nim pos?ugiwa? w podobnie skomplikowanych przypadkach.

A pan zgodziÅ' siÄ™ z kolegÄ…? - zainteresowaÅ' siÄ™ nieznajomy i odwróciÅ' siÄ™ w prawo, do Bezdomnego. -Na sto procent! - potwierdziÅ' poeta, który lubiÅ' wyra?a? siÄ™ zawile i metaforycznie.

He turned away and offered his hand in parting. She didn't take it or say anything. But from where I was behind the door I could see her face through the crack. I pitied her to see how deathly pale that sweet little face had gone. Hearing no answer, Pechorin took a few steps towards the door. He was trembling, and I might say I think he was fit to do what he'd threatened as a joke. That's the sort of man he was, there was no knowing him.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.