Complex Quotes

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A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field. — Richard Louv
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.… — Charles Darwin
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary… — Thomas Aquinas
Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are… — R. D. Laing
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously… — Ha-Joon Chang
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to… — David Horowitz
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' -… — James Chanos
The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper… — Jane Campion
As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make -… — Richard Dooling
Derivatives are a huge, complex issue. — Judd Gregg
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if… — Rupert Grint
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. — Chuck Hagel
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences… — Bong Joon-ho
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms… — Phillip E. Johnson
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. — Etgar Keret
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. — Etgar Keret
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns… — Hari Kunzru
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think… — Callie Khouri
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -… — Ken MacLeod

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