Cases Quote by Ludwig von Bertalanffy

In complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions.

— Zeynep Tufekci

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

— David Byrne

I believe that no one who is familiar, either with mathematical advances in other fields, or with the range of special biological conditions to…

— Ronald Fisher

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

— Albert Einstein

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that…

— Marilyn Ferguson

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

— Paul Dickson

A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by…

— Herbert Spencer Jennings

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

— Linus Pauling

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which…

— Anatol Rapoport

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely…

— Kenneth E. Boulding