Dichotomy Quote by David Ehrenfeld

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

“sometimes things can be a little different, almost vastly different, yet make perfect sense when they are brought together. Sometimes differences are what make…

— Taryn Leigh

“One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.”

— Maupertuis

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“profoundly complex systems”

— William Brinkley

“diverse, connected, interdependent entities whose behavior is determined by rules, which may adapt, but need not. The interactions of these entities often produce phenomena…

— Scott E. Page

“It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.”

— Roby James

“life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.”

— Peter L. Bernstein

“All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying…

— A. Lee Martinez

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery