Complexity Quotes

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very ...

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change...

And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you'v...

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to rest...

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the ...

I do not know which of us has written this page.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "...

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts....

These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamu...

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere...

In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the ...

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a h...

Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of ...

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

Simple is never that simple.

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does no...

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every ef...

It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so m...

The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of ...

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. ...

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you lea...

To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters...

Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all c...

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitivel...

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been con...

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when w...

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single bo...

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these mo...