My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does. — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were. — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity! — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and… — Will Burtin Copy Share Image
Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known… — Steven Rose Copy Share Image
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins Copy Share Image
The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place. — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine. — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
