Quotes About Complexity

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Me voy a ir, Liza. No… no quiero hacerte daño. No creo que tú quieras esto, así que el daño ya te lo he hecho, y… Oh, Dios, Liza, no quiero… Me… me gustas un montón. Ya te lo dije, me haces sentir que soy real, más de lo que jamás pensé, más viva que… Eres… eres mejor que cien Californias, pero no solo eso, es que…

How can something make you so weak and so strong at the same time?

Don't you feel more than one thing at a time? That's what insanity is, trying to feel one way. That's why it feels good to go crazy. Or to be addicted. It's so much easier than feeling several things at once. -Miles

The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon. It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.

Who am I, in French? I really don't know -- a bit of everything, perhaps.

The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...

Les langues ne sont pas seulement des langues : ce sont aussi des world views, c'est à dire des façons de voir et de comprendre le monde. Il y a de l'intraduisible là-dedans... et si vous avez plus d'une world view... vous n'en avez, d'une certaine façon, aucune.

Throw enough scientific gibberish at non-scientists and they always faltered.

Gail smiled. "A gracious concession. We're not much alike, dear heart." "Nothing alike." "So why—" "Oh, God, not this," Nan said. "Every lover I've ever had has run this program on me eventually. 'Why us?' Why not? And don't go thinking that by that I mean we're just a one night's roll-and-tickle, Gail. I like you. I just don't want to analyze why. Ask me something else.

strange attractor—do

Oh! How like a woman," Davey said. "Sex, my dear Sadie, is not a sovereign cure for everything, you know. I only wish it were.

The contemporary design argument does not rest, however, on gaps in our knowledge but rather on the growth in our knowledge due to the revolution in molecular biology. Information theory has taught us that nature exhibits two types of order. The first type is produced by natural causes-shiny crystals, hexagonal patterns in oil, whirlpools in the bathtub. But the second type-the complex structure of the DNA molecule-is not produced by any natural processes known to experience.

The biological structure of our bodies is not some evolutionary accident.

If reductionism is like trying to stuff all of reality into a box, we could say the problem is that the box is always too small. Idols deify some part of the created order. But no matter which part they choose, a part is always too limited to explain the whole. The universe is too complex and multi-dimensional to fit into a box composed of just one part. Invariably something will stick out. Something will not fit into its restricted conceptual categories.

But the idea that Stoics don't have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe "proto-emotions" that we feel and can't control, and even a sage isn't impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.

This sister thing, Marina thought, is as complicated and incomprehensible as particle physics.

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.

There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone, so I don't know where you all think you get off labeling humans with simple words and thinking you know everything you need. But most people can't live that way, even some of the time.

Allie says: Are you trying to tell me there's literally no right choice here? The voice says: There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone, so I don't know where you all think you get off labelling humans with simple words and thinking you know everything you need. But most people can't live that way, even some of the time.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

There are more kinds of belonging than you know, Ronit, my joy. The world is not so easily categorized as you might prefer. And you are trying to steal that which you do not even desire.