If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness… — Peter Coveney Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I end up liking politicians, both left and right, who talk about political matters as if they are addressing a bunch of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“Systemic disruption requires us to accept that there may be no measurable data to fully substantiate our understanding of those disruptions. Imaging… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be… — John Barth 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
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it,… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with… — Hiam Abbass Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the… — Deborah Kampmeier Copy Share Image
But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate… — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
“Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life… Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
