Andre Aciman

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

American Writer

Michael Behe

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

American Scientist

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Ken Liu

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

Use 'irreducibly' to stress that something cannot be made any simpler.

Not Simplifiable

'Irreducibly' is often used in formal or academic contexts to describe complex ideas.

Academic Tone

Describe something's unique and essential features that cannot be further reduced.

Unique Characteristics

 in the computational universe before you start finding candidate universes that aren't obviously not our universe. Here's the Any serious candidate for our universe is inevitably full of computational irreducibility. Which means that it is irreducibly difficult