Quotes About Complexity

Birçok dert de, ne yaz?k, bilimin istedi?i tan?mlar?n içine s??m?yordu. ?nsan?n, bilimd??? ne kadar çok hastal??? vard?.

Çeli?kili duyarl?klara ayn? anda yer veren insan?n iç dünyas? çok ba?kayd?. Bir Bach sonat?yla bir Beethoven senfonisinin yanyana çal?nmas? onun yan?nda bir ?ey ifade etmiyordu.

??te ?ehirlerin katlar? birbirine kar???yor, i?te arkeolog-kar?ncalar! Her ?eyi yerli yerine yerle?tiriyorlar, i?te onlar?n sayesinde her ?ey Birdenbire anlam kazan?yor: Dört ta? bir ?ehir, yirmi iki kupon bedava bir apartman kat? oluyor, i?te yer levhalar?, i?te Yunanca, Latince ve bizim dilce.

?nsan görmekle bile baz? ?eylerin a??rl???na dayanabilir, avunabilir, hayal kurma?a devam edebilir. Sen anlamazs?n tabii. Anlamak için, insan?n baz? eksik yönleri olmal?.

Monsters, monsters! But there are no monsters! What you call monsters are superior forms, or forms beyond your understanding.

Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Just struggling with my own perversity.

There are easier ways to say these things," it admitted. "But some things shouldn't be said easily.

Strangely, they seemed to like him, hold him in contempt, and fear him all at the same time. This confused me because I felt just about the same mixture of emotions for him myself. I had thought my feelings were complicated because he and I had such a strange relationship. But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships. Only

You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you've captured us, and we can't escape.

En un cosmos inconcebiblemente complejo, cada vez que una criatura se enfrentaba con diversas alternativas, no elegía una sino todas, creando de este modo muchas historias universales del cosmos. Ya que en ese mundo había muchas criaturas y que cada una de ellas estaba continuamente ante muchas alternativas, las combinaciones de esos procesos eran innumerables, y a cada instante ese universo se ramificaba infinitamente en otros universos, y éstos, en otros a su vez.

he tried hard to analyse his feelings about the human species, and the causes of his own fluctuation between adoration and contemptuous resentment

But what a language this was! For a foreigner, English is like a huge building which one has to get to know and, as somebody remarked, the closer you come to it, the taller and more daunting it appears. (One sign of its sheer size was that my best two-volume English—Russian dictionary contained 160,000 entries, compared with only 60,000 in a French—Russian dictionary of similar scope.)

anyone who tells you there's one reason for what they do is a liar.

Nothing is innocent, and nothing is insignificant, it's all a big endless puzzle.

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

Prawda jest jak s?kacz, sk?ada si? z wielu warstw, które kr?c? si? wokó? siebie, raz siebie zawieraj?, a raz same s? zawierane przez inne. Prawda to jest co?, co mo?na wyra?a? wieloma opowie?ciami, bo jest jak ten ogród, do którego weszli m?drcy: ka?dy widzia? co innego.

People are built like houses inside- they have stairwells, spacious halls, vestibules that are always too weakly lit to count the doors into the rooms, row upon row of apartments, damp chambers, slimy, tiled bathrooms with cast-iron baths, steps with handrails taut as veins, artery-like corridors, joint-like landings, passages, guest rooms, draughty chambers into which a sudden current of warm air flows, closets, twists and turns and cubby-holes, and larders full of forgotten supplies.

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate. That is how it works. Like a Japanese car.

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

why contractual incompleteness matters. The reason is that the renegotiation process imposes several costs. Some of these are ex post costs, incurred at the renegotiation stage itself, and others are ex ante costs, incurred in anticipation of renegotiation.