Complexity Quotes

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I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
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
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. — Heinz Pagels
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity… — Edward Tufte
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex… — Harold Urey
Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you need food, you… — Rajneesh
The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created. — David Spangler
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing… — John Lighton Synge
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although… — Gerald Fischbach
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an… — Gordon Shepherd
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes… — Ray Ozzie
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
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
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve… — Andre Michel Lwoff
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov

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