Quotes About Complexity

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

[History is a] mixture of error and violence.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

All is like, all unlike; all is useful and harmful, eloquent and dumb, reasonable and unreasonable. And what people profess about individual matters is often contradictory.

En esta vida son pocos los momentos que se resuelven con un sí o con un no.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.