Quotes About Complexity

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

Great system: the poison and the antidote come in the same bottle

How difficult it is to analyse these relationships which lie under the mere skin of our actions; for loving is only a sort of skin-language, sex a terminology merely.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine'.)

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.