Quotes About Complexity

Why, when it comes to Law, I have nothing to say" answered that personage. "for laws were never meant to be understood, and it is foolish to make the attempt.

Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

People who are always understood are very common. You are sure to respect those you can't understand, for you feel that perhaps they know more than you do.

All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form.

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.