“Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.” AsksAnswersCreationBecomingModelsEthicsComplexityCosmosGeometryDuration Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.” ValuesGamesProcessModelsPracticalsAriseManifestationComplexityTreatmentQuotationsComplicationWhimsicalFluctuationStationary Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.” WorldRealEarthWaterFireAirLandDependsModelsLaborEnormousChosenComplexityDividesReal WorldClassificationTaxonomyLabor And Capital Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.” LittlesTwoProcessSimpleNumbersCasesModelsMiracleCellsComplexityConsideringEquationsSimplestLinearVariablesLinear Equations Author:Ludwig von Bertalanffy
“The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.” MadeSocialDealsNumbersFieldsEssentialsModelsStructurePropertyCharacteristicsComplexityBiologyLarge NumbersVariablesSocial SciencePhysical Science Author:Friedrich August von Hayek