Quotes About Complexity

The most hardest thing in the world is that understanding someone's mind. Because you cannot get what's really going on their mind.

I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

The chief virtue of Bloom's Taxonomy was its simplicity: six categories, not sixty.

If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don't see why I can't.

It's where a thing can't be beautiful or perfect without an imperfection. Say,

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously described the importance of being able "to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time," while still retaining "the ability to function." I was quickly becoming practiced at this discomfiting balance.

Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.

According to many philosophers, there is a purely logical reason why science will never be able to explain everything. For in order to explain something, whatever it is, we need to invoke something else. But what explains the second thing?

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

If you tell people the world is complicated, you're not doing your job as a social scientist. They already know it's complicated. Your job is to distill it, simplify it.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to untangle them, explain them, and I couldn't. I didn't know the words, the grammar, the syntax. And

It is not that female characters in the modern novel are characterizations of bad or limited people—although, incidentally, they almost always are—but that they are badly drawn, because the writers flatly refuse to apply the same complex of literary artifice in their character realizations to both males and females—out of habits that begin as a response to some terror that human individuation would make the female characters equal to the males.

For three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed animal...

She was...that's the whole entirety.

The over-determined human mind would rather have everything relevant, even if the relevance is simple-minded.

You know what is it a hologram? They're projected from interference patterns off a very small, very low-powered laser. It's not complicated. But it looks impressive. They call them light-shields.

Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.

Well, Earwig, there's not much about love that does make sense.