Complex Quotes

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A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and… — Merrill Markoe
Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We… — William O. Douglas
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we… — Peter Corning
Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the… — Holmes Rolston III
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult… — H. Bentley Glass
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical… — Herbert Spencer Jennings
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Martinus Beijerinck
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection… — Chen-Ning Yang
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own… — Ayn Rand
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the… — Jonathan Ive
gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system. — Joe Jordan
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies… — Francis Crick

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