Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. 

Tags: complexity   curiosity   desire   life   love   passion   psychology     


Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed  - Quotes

 Ben Stein:
I'm finally just beginning to grasp the complexity of the cell. Are there systems within the cell that go well beyond Darwinian evolution? Some type of cellular technology that drives adaptation, replication, quality control and repair? What if these new mechanisms have massive design implications? Well I say, so be it.
 

Toni Morrison  - Quotes

 This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. 

Tags: artist   complexity   life   multiplicity     


John Maynard Keynes  - Quotes

 Too large a proportion of recent  

Tags: complexity   economics   mathematics     
Murray Gell-Mann  - Quotes

 Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.  

Tags: complexity   science   systems     
M. Scott Peck  - Quotes

 Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex. 

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Ursula K. Le Guin  - Quotes

 I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. 

Tags: complexity   diversity     
Joyce Carol Oates  - Quotes

 The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to  

Tags: ambiguity   complexity   writing     
Murray Gell-Mann  - Quotes

 In 1963, when I assigned the name  

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