Quotes About Complexity

biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

IDisorder is infinitely deep.

Disorder is infinitely deep.

There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. Both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

We see that music, like the world, is formed from unchanging mathematical principles deployed in time, creating complexity, variety and beauty.

Ludwig Schlafi (1814-1895) proved that there are six regular four-dimensional polytopes (generalisations of polyhedra): the 5-cell made of tetrahedra, the 8-cell or tesseract made of cubes, the 16-cell made of tetrahedra, the 24-cell made of octahedra, the 120-cell made of dodecahedra, and the 600-cell made of tetrahedra.

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding To a bride with a paper ring And half of my heart is the part of a man Who's never truly loved anything

I really don't have any words of advice at all . The world is an endlessly confounding place.

Love is messy and complicated and unfair.

There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, than the desires of the human heart.

this exquisite, tremendous, and endlessly confounding life

There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, Eleanor thinks, than the desires of the human heart.

One can … get trapped in one's own intellectual web.

Scientific knowledge is as much an understanding of the diversity of situations for which a theory or its models are relevant as an understanding of its limits.

all good books are bad!

Theoretical inquiry involves a search for regularities. It involves abstraction from the complexity of a field setting, followed by the positing of theoretical variables that underlie observed complexities.

Confusing a model – such as that of a perfectly competitive market – with the theory of which it is one representation can limit applicability still further.

Die wichtigste Lehre für die Politikanalyse und -gestaltung, die sich aus der hier skizzierten intellektuellen Reise ableiten lässt, lautet, dass Menschen komplexere Motivationsstrukturen und mehr Fähigkeiten zur Lösung sozialer Dilemmas mitbringen als die Theorie der rationalen Wahl annimmt.

He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated, interesting place?...When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.

We know so little about what goes on in another person's head.

The more complicated the situation seems to be, the simpler solution must be. .. People believe that reality is complex, and therefore they are looking for sophisticated explanations for complicated solutions. .. Reality it is actually simple.

But as you said, the complexity of our organizations almost guarantees that there are not many of them.

We are bound to those we love by their imperfections their perfections help us to explain them to others.

Screwed-up people are ordinary people who cause hurricanes in your emotions.