Quotes about Complexity

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

String theory is rather like plumbing, in a way.

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

Most laws of nature exist as part of a larger, interconnected system of laws.

It means the universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature.

Do the laws governing the universe allow us to predict exactly what is going to happen to us in the future? The short answer is no, and yes. In principle, the laws allow us to predict the future. But in practice the calculations are often too difficult.

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

If Ediacara survivors had been able to evolve internal complexity later on, then the pathways from this radically different starting point would have produced a world worthy of science fiction at its best.

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.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.