Quotes about Complexity
It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
- Lee Strobel
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
- GK Chesterton
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
- Herman Melville
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
- Will Rogers
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
- Kamasi Washington
In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
- Carl Sagan
There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
- Carl Sagan
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- Stephen Jay Gould