Complexity Quotes

• Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Simplicity
  • Clear
  • Complexity

• In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Profound
  • Scientist
  • Explanation

• Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Emotion

• This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Universe
  • Greater
  • Novelty

• Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.

  

  Hank Green
  • Views
  • Complexity
  • Conversations

• Painting is an aid to vision. It turns life, the complexity of life, into something visible. It reveals things that we don’t know how to see.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Vision
  • Painting
  • Reveals

• Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Complexity

• The systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely ordered or imaginatively envisaged complexity.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Simplicity
  • Steps
  • Emerging

• If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Computer
  • Prove
  • Scientist

• God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Challenges
  • Champion
  • Tension

• But as you said, the complexity of our organizations almost guarantees that there are not many of them.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Complexity
  • Guarantees
  • Organizations

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