“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication -… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I loved doing 'Bad Moms.' I loved doing 'We're the Millers.' But now that I've tasted complexity, it doesn't matter what the… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not… — Herbert Spencer Jennings Copy Share Image
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works,… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Reality consists of sets of interacting problems, systems of problems we call “messes.” As previously noted, problems are abstractions extracted from reality… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization -… — Reuven Feuerstein Copy Share Image
When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred… — Bradley Denton Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can… — Harlan Cleveland Copy Share Image
I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
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