Quotes About Complexity

Faire une architecture c'est faire une créature. Etre rempli se remplir s'être rempli éclater exulter froid de glace au sein des complexités devenir un jeune chien content. Devenir l'ordre. ...

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

That our intuition could lead us astray is troubling in direct proportion to the degree of trust we place in it. The solution would seem to be: Don't be overly trusting. Mix in a healthy dose of skepticism. But suppose we don't have a say in the matter? Suppose we're hardwired to trust—to believe in—our instincts, regardless of whether they're right? Suddenly the problem of not knowing becomes a lot more complicated.

There is not just one entry route that purports to explain all types of female criminality.

Paths to crime are not neatly divided

Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.

So the fact that you're sleeping with Raylene's ex, and accusing her of being too crazy to lead the fight for the causes she cares about, must feel like a double betrayal to her.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other.

To quote Richard Dawkins, in The Blind Watchmaker, "The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is, in principle, capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. Even if the evidence did not favor it, it would still be the best theory available." The

Think about it, Lee - we already know that intelligent minds produce finely tuned devices. Look at the space shuttle. Look at a television set. Look at an internal combustion engine. We see minds producing complex, precision machinery all the time. So the existence of a supermind - or God - as the explanation for the fine - tuning of the universe makes all sense in the world.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

In my judgment an organic machine new to nature never arises, since it always contains an infinity of organs so that it can express, in its own way, the whole universe; indeed, it always contains all past and present times.

Mother Nature is not beneficent. She is not maleficent either of course. Merely augustly, majestically capricious.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

Some of the simplest things in like are the most difficult to imagine.

I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear it was.