Quotes About Complexity

To be sure, physicists have faith in string theory because, in some important sense, at least, it seems to work - just as people fly in airplanes because they work. The difference is, somebody understands how jets work. And no one, as yet, understands what underlies string theory.

The most cursory glimpse at the world we perceive through out senses is far richer than this nothingness can seem to support. Things sprout, drip, spew, dive, wander, branch, breathe, trickles, fizz, pierce, curl, spiral, branch, shine, flicker, and fade. The shapes and motions are rich and irregular. The nothing we have met so far seems far too neat to give rise to all of messy reality.

All these dualities suggest that string theorists have been looking at the same animal, only some have discovered the tail, while others have found the ears or glimpsed a snout. The problem is, they still don't know what kind of animal they're dealing with.

but anyone who tells you it's impossible to be madly in love with two people at the same time clearly doesn't go to the theatre.

the exceptionally profound is always, by definition, basic and mundane.

Life was like that. Everyone loved the wrong person who loved someone else or didn't love at all.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

He was, in fact, an immensely human figure, as talented as he was complex, at once brilliant and naïve, a passionate advocate for social justice and a tireless government adviser whose commitment to harnessing a runaway nuclear arms race earned him powerful bureaucratic enemies. As his friend Rabi said, in addition to being "very wise, he was very foolish.

People thought him complicated simply because he was interested in so many things, and knew so much. But on an emotional level, "he wanted to be a simple person, simple in the good sense of the word." Robert "wanted friends very much," Cherniss said. And yet, despite his tremendous personal charm, "he didn't quite know how to make friends.

Science is deeply embedded in modern civilization—but the average citizen does not understand the scientific life or how scientific discoveries are made. Neither is it generally understood that scientific discovery is never a neat story. Writing about a life in science is thus by definition particularly onerous. The biographer in this case has to understand not only the life but also the science.

The kind of person that I admire most would be one who becomes extraordinarily good at doing a lot of things but still maintains a tear-stained countenance.

One day in class, after a particularly difficult lecture, Oppenheimer quipped, "I can make it clearer; I can't make it simpler.

If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate.

Emotions might lead to chaos sometimes, but can be a beautiful kind of chaos. - The Return, Book 3 of The Wordwick Games by Kailin Gow.

I guess it depends on whether you want perfect. I hear some girls prefer their boyfriends a little more flawed and troubled.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Jack Simple. Though the name is ironic, because there is never anything simple about Jack.", Falling (Fade Book 2) by Kailin Gow

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

Stories, Vishnu, are like snarled threads, each connected with the other, and it's very tempting to want to tell them all at once. But time, linear, progressive, maddening time, won't let me.

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

This is too big a word for human beings to understand. Like is more useful and powerful than love.

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The world has gotten so interwoven.

I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

The brain is so intricate. It can do so many things, and people sleep on it. It's not just a piece of meat in there - it can do so much.