Quotes About Complexity

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

las medidas de contención en la raíz, llevan consigo el concepto de "esto y, aun así, esto otro"».

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

Calamities and opportunities all jumbled up together and no sure way to distinguish one from the other.

Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.

Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend to run to extremes.

the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty, complexity, service to others, community, the gradual emergence of cultural norms, and the spontaneous development of extended orders of commercial and private relationships. Freedom is what gives life to the human imagination and enables the working out of love as it extends from our most benevolent and highest longings.

How was someone supposed to understand something like love?

Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you. Here is the truth: Sometimes life is complicated.

I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

no matter how much we "know," there are always more sides to the story

AS A HUMAN BEING," Einstein once wrote, "one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

What kind of intelligence allows a bird to anticipate the arrival of a distant storm? Or find its way to a place it has never been before, though it may be thousands of miles away? Or precisely imitate the complex songs of hundreds of other species? Or hide tens of thousands of seeds over hundreds of square miles and remember where it put them six months later? (I would flunk these sorts of intelligence tests as readily as birds might fail mine.)

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Do you mind my madness? Even if you're right that I can contain the rages, I will always be mad. I won't get better." "I know." Beth snuggled against his chest. "It's part of the very intriguing package that is Ian Mackenzie.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

He sighed and smiled and touched my nose. 'Words! You funny thing! Words! Verbigation! You know you will spoil everything if you have to verbalize about it. Words never work properly. Life is difficult, subtle, complex. Life, as Lawrence might say, is a 'winged gift'. Words are always inadequate to express the complexity of a situation.

Beauty is not always pretty.

Simple is the opposite of hard, easy is also the opposite of hard. But simple is not the same as easy. Not at all.

Why isn't real life like book life?" I asked, sitting down next to him. "Why aren't people plain and uncomplicated?

As her gaze traveled over the faces on the other side, she realized that it wasn't only a person's strengths but their flaws, that made them truly beautiful.

reach isn't describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it's simultaneous.

You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced--they're, like, multiple personalities.