From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.
. . . we are the products of our past. . . . a web of complexities.
I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.
I didn't struggle to find my style - I prefer to call it "voice," because I think the word is more suggestive of complexity, implying quality of form and content. I do, however, struggle with making my work "work," and there's no predicting whether this can be achieved calmly or with a ferocious evisceration of the psyche.
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims. . . to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.
When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes. " You carry the terrain in your mind.
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.