Quotes about Complexity

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.

It's puzzling work, talking is.

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.

But in that curious compound, the feminine character, it may easily happen that the flavor is unpleasant in spite of excellent ingredients;

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

It is not easy to express the inexpressible