Quotes about Complexity

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Black and white is mix of toughest simplicity and easiest complexity. — Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have — Javier Merizalde
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that — Murray Gell-Mann
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. — Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without — Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could — Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceed — Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million tim — Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, — Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
You’re different, and I know that’s probably the most cliché response ever given, but it’s the truth. When I look at you — Caroline George, The Vestige
He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they — E.M. Forster
When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity. — Michael Bassey Johnson
God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very differen — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Government succeeds by failing. — L.K. Samuels
And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way — Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair — Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. — Kat Lehmann
Some of the simplest of truths are also some of the most difficult of truths, but such is Christianity: 'If it's not abo — Criss Jami, Healology
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an — Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most infamous of men, would — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables