It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk.… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If… — Dennis Lindley 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
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Pakistan always seems to have a lot of political complexities and political challenges. But Pakistan is important for a number of reasons.… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan 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
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no… — Bruce Eckel Copy Share Image
I think there are great roles for women in television because there is time to allow those characters to evolve. Even if… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort… — Moby Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“The cell has biological machines at work in it that have separate functions that all have to operate together simultaneously in order… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis 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
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
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
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
We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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