Quotes About Complexity

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.

If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.