Quotes About Complexity

Quindi lei ti ama, e tu vuoi amarla. Non è la stessa cosa

L'uomo è in grado di apprendere poche cose la volta; vediamo soltanto ciò che accade dinanzi a noi, qui e ora; non siamo capaci di figurarci una serie di processi che avvengono simultaneamente, per quanto siano legati o complementari gli uni agli altri. Questo vale anche per fenomeni relativamente semplici. La sorte di un uomo è significativa, quella di cento si può appena afferrare; ma la storia di mille, di un milione, propriamente parlando, non ci dice niente.

aun sin certeza, los problemas imposibles de resolver pueden, sin embargo, resolverse de manera aproximada

Science fiction involves the art of putting hypothetical premises into the very complicated stream of sociopsychological occurrences.

There's a kind of Gödel's Theorem in human affairs: Every attempt to systemize life or to govern it by a set of axioms rich enough to encompass the totality of experience leads to a contradiction.

If it is hard to find a 'natural' parent-child relationship in this variety of family arrangements, it is also difficult to make pat historical judgments about what kind of family is best for children.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

Sometimes, a different way of representing information is the key to understanding something as complicated as the subatomic world.

Religious interpretations invariably reduce complexity to uniformity while elevating matter-of-factness to holiness.

Each time something contingent and impermanent is raised to the status of something necessary and permanent, a devil is created. Whether it be an ego, a nation-state, or a religious belief, the result is the same. The distortion severs such things from their embeddedness in the complexities, fluidities, and ambiguities of the world and make them appear as simple, fixed, and unambiguous entities with the power to condemn or save us.

Europe learned that Buddhism was "a Babylon of doctrines so intricate that no one can understand it properly, or describe it.

I am who I am not because of an essential self hidden away in the core of my being but because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me. The more I delve into this mystery of who I am (or what anything is)

people, with their faults and ambiguities and weaknesses, and plumbing.

After the emergence of intelligence, the story of any biosphere tended to get a lot simpler. It was a major reason for the silence of the stars.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other

And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.

Math has never made any sense to me.

very easy to read, but very hard to 'read well

So, this is my life. And I want you to know I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

OK, questa è la mia vita. E desidero che tu sappia che sono felice e triste al tempo stesso, e che sto ancora cercando di capire come ciò sia possibile.

First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Supongo que somos quienes somos por muchas razones, y quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.