Complexity Quotes - Page 11

• Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Two, Unity, Chaos

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Nothing can be created out of nothing.

  Lucretius

  Preparation

  De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

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• Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Confusion, Understanding, Confusing

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• The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Nature, Lying

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• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

  Alan Watts

  Unity, Chaos, Duality

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.126, New World Library

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• To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

  Ken Wilber

  Circles, Understanding, Chaos

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.200, Shambhala Publications

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• Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

  Lisa Nicole Carson

  Black, Television, Film

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• Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.

  Edward Said

  Strong, Creating, Historical

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• A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

  Sidney Hook

  Understanding, Perception, Awareness

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• In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

  Michael Behe

  Profound, Levels, Scientist

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

  Eric S. Raymond

  Real, Writing, World

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• Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

  Ken Wilber

  Consciousness

  Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, Marco Morelli (2008). “Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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• We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the interplay of these systems. Our health care, to be truly effective, must acknowledge and address this complexity and interconnectedness – and also the effect we have on each other.

  Ann Scott

  Mind, Body, Care

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• I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Lying, Men, Differences

  B. F. Skinner (1990). “The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis”, p.466, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

  Max Horkheimer

  Perception, World, Connections

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black

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• The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Add, Mobility

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.74, Best Books on

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• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, White, Kind

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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• Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, Ideas, Giving

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• Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

  Steven Levitt

  Powerful, Thinking, Data

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

  Christine Caine

  Christian, Challenges, Champion

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 23, 2014

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• So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

  Plato

  Plato, Reality, Giving

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• It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

  Peter Coveney

  Unique, Thinking, Space

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