Quotes about Intricacy

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

The difference was in the details.

the wide untrammeled space that once thrilled her became vacancy. A commanding and oppressive absence. She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So

You know, there's a thing that stumps me. You're the coldest man I know. And I can't understand why - knowing that you're actually a fiend in your quiet sort of way - why I always feel, when I see you, that you're the most life-giving person I've ever met.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.