“Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.” FactsSimpleStudyComplexesChaosTechniqueMathematical Author:Neil Gershenfeld
“The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself.” ShowsMightConsciousnessStudyComplexesSakeNervousOrgansDistributionNervous SystemSteering Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and the great game of Hunt-the Complex began, to the entertainment and alarm of a war-shattered and disillusioned world.” WorldFirstsWarEnoughRememberGamesStudyTheoryComplexesEntertainmentHuntsPsychiatryAlarmsShatteredClinicDisillusioned Author:Mary Butts
“In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldPersonsImportantLyingStudyPiecesFashionPaperComplexesStudying Music Author:Richard Meale
“I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.” BookWantedSchoolUnderstandingLevelsSecretStudyUnderstoodComplexesDeeperPhysicsQuantumEnergeticQuantum PhysicsDeeper Understanding Book:The Secret Source: The Secret
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.” WayWarWholeBeautifulFatherGamesIndividualSimpleStudyPiecesKingsEternalComplexesNobleQueensBoardsSavagesFiniteElegantKnightsBishopsPiousIvoryHaughtyIndividual Power Book:The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave
“I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.” ThinkingSelfAnimalStudyComplexesSpotsOur RelationshipSuperiorityInsecurePyramidsUnderminingSuperiority Complex Author:Jonathan Balcombe
“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.” WayHumansMatterHardAsksUnderstandingSimpleDealsStudyComplexesAffairEdgesComplicatedSimple ThingsHard Questions Author:Noam Chomsky