Immanuel Kant Quotes

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

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 patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

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

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.