Complex systems Quote by Melanie Mitchell

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of…

— William Thurston

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

— Samir Okasha

General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Modeling—a process to develop a representation of reality to understand, communicate, or predict.”

— Rich Jolly

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

— Donella Meadows

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

“It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t…

— James S.A. Corey

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

— Dominic Cummings

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem,…

— Greg Gutfeld

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“Throughout this Introduction we will see that confusing our mathematical models with the reality they aim to describe muddles the discussion of both.”

— Leonard A. Smith

A theory is just a mathematical model to describe the observations.

— Karl Popper