Complexity Quotes

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We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,… — Douglas Kennedy
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in… — Neil Gaiman
I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can… — Kerry Greenwood
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING… — Terry Pratchett
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening… — Mark Haddon
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension. — Kay Redfield Jamison
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams
The man is a humbug â€” a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't… — Terry Pratchett
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which… — Paul Valery
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not… — John Kenneth Galbraith
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. — Sri Aurobindo
We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity. — Lachlan Murdoch
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. — Robert Breault
The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of one's life finds… — Timothy Shriver
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical… — William Bennett
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. — Stephen Jay Gould
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be… — Alison Jolly

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