Complex Quotes

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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going… — Rajneesh
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it… — Rajneesh
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments… — Henry Ward Beecher
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a… — Ernest K. Gann
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to the… — Robert Anton Wilson
It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much… — Linus Pauling
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not… — Thomas Huxley
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex… — Claude Bernard
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and… — Carl Sagan
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in… — Norman Mailer
The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they… — Karl Popper
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet

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