Frivolous Quote by Norman L. Biggs

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

— Charlie Munger

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult…

— Peter D. Mitchell

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

— Cheryl Strayed

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

— E. O. Wilson

I came from rather humble beginnings.

— Teresa Palmer

Growing up it was humble beginnings.

— Dwane Casey

I come from humble beginnings myself.

— Letitia James

I come from very humble beginnings.

— Patrick Beverley

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

— Will Wright

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

— L. Ron Hubbard