Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Jeff McNeely Copy Share Image
Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace… — Steve House Copy Share Image
I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
