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.
- Albert Einstein
Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
Make things as simple as possible but no simpler
- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler
- Albert Einstein
Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
- Aldous Huxley
Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.
- Aldous Huxley
Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.
- Aldous Huxley
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.
- Aldous Huxley
Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.
- Aldous Huxley
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.
- Aldous Huxley