Quotes About Complexity

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.

I chose to write from different perspectives despite its complexity because it is what I have always done as a journalist.

'Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives.

I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a perverse way.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

It is a labor of love, but there is a lot of labor, especially when you're trying to build a big, epic world with lots of details and a kind of physics of magic that makes some sense and actually has some rules to it.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.