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Quotes About Complexity

Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself.
~ Joseph Fourier
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
~ Edmund Burke
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
~ Carl Sagan
Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
~ Janet Morris
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
~ Ivan Doig
There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
~ Carl Sagan
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
~ Paul Klee
No matter how we may single out a complex from nature...its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.
~ Albert Einstein
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
~ Alexis Carrel
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
~ Zadie Smith
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
~ David Attenborough
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe
~ Donald Knuth
That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
~ Richard P. Feynman
My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.
~ Robert Creeley
My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
~ Paddy Considine
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from time to time.
~ Rene Dubos
Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information
~ Jeremy Campbell
Short form media is reductionist by nature.
~ Jon Krakauer
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
~ Terence McKenna
We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.
~ Lewis Thomas
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
~ Livy