Quotes about Complexity

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Make things as simple as possible but no simpler

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs," the writer and philosopher recollected. "Those folds in the trousers ? what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel ? how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.