Complexity Quotes · Page 18

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

— Gregory Stock

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

— Henry Louis Gates

Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

— Dan Wells

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight…

— Stephanie Coontz

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and…

— William Blake

I think the American landscape is a very special thing. There's a kind of complexity and solemnness within it.

— Taylor Russell

“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”

— Paul Valéry

Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity…

— Karen Armstrong

I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for…

— Roy Spencer

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice…

— Evelyn Waugh

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the…

— David Christian

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my…

— Cheryl Strayed

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater…

— Jason Silva

Video game engines can handle the kind of complexity and realism you can't put into a movie - yet. But games are…

— Mark Walton

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.…

— Ellen Goodman

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style…

— Fred Ritchin

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter…

— Peter Turchi

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before…

— Anonymous

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost…

— Joyce Tenneson

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the…

— Pat Conroy

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,…

— Umberto Eco

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or…

— Yuri Lotman

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

— Lisa Nicole Carson

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is…

— Alice Munro

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its…

— Ben Marcus

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

— Daniel Levitin

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

— Vandana Shiva

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial…

— Richard Koch

The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are…

— David Draiman

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”

— Herman Melville

“Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.”

— Vishwanath S J

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

— Price Pritchett

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful...

— Michelle Obama

We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.

— Alex Stamos

“Everything was intertwined, with the complexity of a three-dimensional puzzle, a puzzle in which truth was not necessarily fact and fact not…

— Haruki Murakami