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