Quotes about Complexity

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.