Quotes About Intricacy

Every living thing, never forget, is a wonder of atomic engineering. Indeed

The most cursory glimpse at the world we perceive through out senses is far richer than this nothingness can seem to support. Things sprout, drip, spew, dive, wander, branch, breathe, trickles, fizz, pierce, curl, spiral, branch, shine, flicker, and fade. The shapes and motions are rich and irregular. The nothing we have met so far seems far too neat to give rise to all of messy reality.

I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?'

The world's full of details, have you noticed? And since no detail is ever repeated in exactly the same shape and always sets off other details, there's no end to it.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths—they haven't any.

People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.

Women are difficult enough to understand, he thought, and I had to go and pick the oddest one of the lot.

Plots behind plots, plans beyond plans. There was always another secret.

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

She's beautiful, but I don't say she's easy to know. Ah, she's a thousand and one things!

The" thing was the thing that implied the greatest number of other things of the sort he had had to tackle; and it was queer of course, but so it was—the implication here was complete. Not

Is to bring about for them such a complexity of relations—unless indeed we call it a simplicity!—that the situation has to wind itself up. They want to go back.

But that is another matter. There is really too much to say.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Yes?" she said. "And who might you be?" I bowed, because it seemed the appropriate response. "I might be Jill's friend." I said. "Or I might be an Israeli terrorist looking for PLO supporters. Or possibly a burglar trying to steal your jewels to support my laudanum habit. Or even a neighbor complaining about the volume. That is "Heart of Uncle," isn't it? It really ought to be louder.

My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. —ANONYMOUS

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So

The Universe is a lot more complicated than it looks from the outside.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.