Paul Harding

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

American Author

Brene Brown

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Kehinde Wiley

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show up. That is something that is both sad and kind of beautiful about it. It remains analog. It remains special and irreducible.

American Artist

Rachel Kushner

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

American Writer

Pawel Pawlikowski

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Polish Director

Reid Hoffman

I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make government effective if we can.

American Businessman

Lynne Ramsay

I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in films are truly irreducible.

Scottish Director

Stephen Jay Gould

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

American Scientist

Ann Coulter

I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense.

American Journalist

Carroll O'Connor

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

American Actor

Use 'irreducible' when something cannot be broken down further or simplified, in both physical and abstract senses.

Cannot Simplify

'Irreducible' often appears in serious or scholarly contexts, rather than everyday conversation.

Serious Tone

The term can imply that something has been reduced to the lowest possible level.

Minimum State

Mathematics values precision; 'irreducible' means the most simplified, exact state without approximation.

Mathematical Precision

'Irreducible' describes mathematical entities that are unchangeable, ensuring consistent results and calculations.

Fixity in Math

'Irreducible' in philosophy means a fundamental idea or concept that cannot be deconstructed into simpler ones.

Philosophical Concepts

In intellectual debates, labeling something as 'irreducible' asserts its importance and resistance to challenge.

Conceptual Importance

 a lot of long-standing mysteries in science. It also brings up new issues, though, like computational irreducibility. I mean, we're used to having science let us predict things, but something like this is fundamentally irreducible. The only way to find its outcome