Quotes About Complexity

The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.

complexity of love would be like trying to tell me we live forever. There are so many levels of love it is almost like the atmosphere… So elliptic and translucent like a layered cake. Looking from within not visible to the naked eye but seen and could almost be touched from outer space.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

Our lives are like lace, appearing unbelievably complicated and mixed up to others. It is essential to remember that your life has to make meaning only to you.

The lives of Einstein and Schrödinger inform is that even the most brilliant scientists are human

Compared with this problem, the original theory of relativity is childish. (Einstein to Sommerfeld on the gravitational problem)

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Human beings are built for connection — it's wired into the depths of our being, It's also complicated and multi-dimensional. This is why we're the healthiest and happiest when we're connected to a group of people rather then depending on a single person for all of our emotional and physical needs

The connoisseur's hushed, museum-trained gaze is not well-designed for these purposes. That gaze values subtlety, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. Its most characteristic grace note is self-congratulation at being the kind of person who likes this rare and beautiful thing, whatever it may be, laced always with contempt for those too crude, too uneducated, or too simple to be able do so.

French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): "The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." I

the quadrature problem is a measure of the greatest difficulty, since it was shown in 1882 to be impossible.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

This land does not go out of its way to provide happy endings

Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. 'For want of a nail…the kingdom was lost', as the old rhyme has it. Civilizations based on ideology are even more fragile than most. As we know from twentieth-century history, once people stop believing in the system, the end is near; no amount of coercion can keep it going indefinitely.

A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.

but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.

True stories are full of holes. Life isn't a smooth freeway across a fruited plain. Life is a winding, pot-holed road, slick with oil, and studded with broken glass. It was one of Steve's laws. If a witness' testimony is too damn good, if there are no loose ends or contradictions, chances are his story is as phony as Donald Trump's hair.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke." —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I couldn't shake the feeling that Guy was more complicated than a good-ole-boy mango grower and Schein had more secrets than Freud's Wolf Man.

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.