Complex Quotes

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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main… — Tanith Lee
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. — Constance Baker Motley
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...Â I consider that life only starts at the level of a… — Werner Arber
It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being,… — Henri Matisse
Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and that with proper… — Tony Buzan
The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage,… — Jessie Redmon Fauset
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no… — P.J. O'Rourke
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe… — Ronald Reagan
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. — Alan Kay
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life… — Thomas Merton
... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not… — Shakti Gawain
GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. — Douglas Gwyn
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex — Ruth Benedict
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. — Ulrich Beck
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right… — Tom Udall

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