“Complexity looks at simplicity and laughs at it for being too simple. But this is stupidity. Which is more valuable? The drop… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger?… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it’s so compatible,… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“If we want to solve problems effectively...we must keep in mind not only many features but also the influences among them. Complexity… — Dietrich Dorner Copy Share Image
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding… — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne Copy Share Image
There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I… — Don Edward Beck Copy Share Image
A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
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