Tyler Cowen

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

American Economist

Wilhelm Dilthey

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

German Historian

Francis Collins

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

American Scientist

Scott Stossel

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

American Journalist

Edward Norton

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.

American Actor

George Santayana

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Spanish Philosopher

Frederick Pollock

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

English Judge

Rachel Kushner

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

American Writer

Stephen Hough

Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

British Composer

Use 'reducible' to describe things that can become smaller in quantity or complexity.

Size Reduction

'Reducible' is not only for physical objects, but also abstract ideas like arguments.

Abstract Concepts

When a complex matter is 'reducible', it often implies it can be solved more easily.

Ease of Resolution

'Reducible' signifies something can be methodically broken down into simpler parts.

Systematic Breakdown

Saying something is 'reducible' also suggests it can be explained in a clearer, more straightforward manner.

Clarification

In math, 'reducible' often refers to factorizing a polynomial into simpler, lower degree polynomials.

Mathematical Factorization

'Reducible' may require specific knowledge or steps to be realized, especially in math.

Not Always Apparent

 about the inner lives of insects okay there is no notion no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible to a concern about conscious

Science can answer moral...

 well then we could be wrong about the inner lives of insects. And there's no notion, no version of human morality and human values that I've ever come across that is not at some point reducible