Education Quote by Rich Jolly

“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But”

— Jurgen Appelo

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

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex…

— Hari Kunzru

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

— Karl Popper

“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

“Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system’s ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a…

— John H. Holland

Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the…

— W. Brian Arthur

“the process of learning a theory depends upon the study of applications, including practice problem-solving both with a pencil and paper and with instruments…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some…

— National Academy of Sciences

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'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

— David Antin