Quotes about Complexity

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.

We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends: Love…casts itself on people who, apart from sex, would be hateful, contemptible, and even abhorrent to us. But the will of the species is so much more powerful than that of individuals, that lovers overlook everything, misjudge everything, and bind themselves forever to an object of misery.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.