Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible - love, truth, faith, honor.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
