What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world? — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it… — George F. R. Ellis 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
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
