Quotes About Complexity

There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

As the reducibly complex mousetrap reminds us, we shouldn't let the intimidating sophistication of the final product trick us into thinking that it couldn't have come about via numerous small steps.

Calculating the relevant processes provides full employment for theoretical physicists.

On the other hand, in the memorable words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

But honest physicists admit that we don't truly understand quantum mechanics.

As impressive as matrix mechanics was, it suffered from a severe marketing flaw. The mathematical formalism was highly abstract and difficult to understand. Einstein's reaction to the theory was typical: A veritable sorcerer's calculation. This is sufficiently ingenious and protected by its great complexity to be immune to any proof of its falsity. This from the guy who had proposed describing space-time in terms of non-Euclidian geometry.

which have developed over the years with no specific purpose in mind, tend to be more flexible, multipurpose, and self-repairing.

many people, not just Americans, make the mistake of taking it neat. He explained how Scotch is made, saying, 'Fer heaven's sake, we add bloody water to it with great violence before we put it in the bloody bottle.' He explained how adding a splash of water opens the spirit up, unfolding layers of complexity on the tongue.

There are no good guys in this game. There's only bad guys, and less bad guys.

I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.

Yeah, but I'm the baby of Fleetwood Mac. Ha, I'm 33 years old, a very old baby, but it's hard for them to watch me walk away and do anything. Because everybody in Fleetwood Mac, including me, is possessive, jealous. It causes us a lot of grief, but at the same time it's never boring. I research Fleetwood Mac all the time in my head and try to figure us out. But I can't. It's a strange grouping of people.

Obama warned in October 2019. "The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."31

Politics: A combination of "poli" meaning many, and "tics" meaning irritating little bugs.

If I explained it to you, your brain would explode.

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Or, as Tesla put it, "A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature." It

The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.

The Bible is like a particular music, you cannot always catch the tune of it.

History is like a jungle, and no clearing that one cuts into it opens up the whole forest.

One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions.

As we embrace our passions and delve into the mystery of life, we unite with the majestic complexity of nature; and if we follow the signs, this can help us understand who we really are.

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

Hon kunde aldrig hänge sig helt åt något. Om hon älskade, ja, vad hon än gjorde, stod liksom ena hälften av hennes jag och såg på med ett kallt hånlöje.