Architecture Quote by Mary Anne Radmacher

“Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.”

— Howard Pattee

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of…

— Richard Dawkins

The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of…

— Melvin Schwartz

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in…

— David Hilbert

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

— Marshall McLuhan

There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art.…

— Ernst Cassirer

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that…

— Astra Taylor

“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are…

— Kevin Michel

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

“It’s only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for…

— Sean Carroll

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

— Lee Smolin

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then…

— Roger Penrose