Quotes About Complexity

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

China is a very big and complicated country; it's not easy to govern. But with courage and unity, China will certainly overcome all difficulties and continue to develop and move forward.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

People aren't universally heroic.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

If one just tried to invent a universe on one's own, it would probably end up being a much less colorful and interesting universe than the one that we live in.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.