Complexity Quote by Howard Pattee

Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

— Richard Dawkins

“Certain outcomes are unavoidable, invariable, absolutely unaffectable, and yet completely unpredictable. Certain outcomes are that way.”

— Hannah Pittard

If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing…

— Arthur Koestler

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

— Tom Stoppard

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

— Stuart Kauffman

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

— Franz Grillparzer

“The illusion that Nature … adopts the same complexity scale used by people … arises each time we face … configuration [space]…. The second…

— Judea Pearl

“All the best physical theories are associated with equations which allow the continuation of data defined at present into the future, and hence allow…

— John D. Barrow

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya