Quotes about Complexity

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

The universe is not a machine; it is an organic whole.