Conditions Quote by Henri Poincare

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

— Henri Poincare

A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our…

— Joseph Black

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme…

— Pieter Zeeman

If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the…

— Henri Poincare

I don't think anyone can ever predict a phenomenon. It's not something you can bank on.

— Marc Platt

“The ubiquity of chaotic phenomena raises a further problem for our dreams of omniscience through the medium of a Theory of Everything. Even if…

— John D. Barrow

The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.

— William S. Burroughs

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation…

— Henri Poincare

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

— Fritjof Capra

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?

— Richard P. Feynman

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

— Gary Hamel