#complex

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #complex #driven #generous #i

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#beings #complex #complexity #human #human beings

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#becoming #complex #fact #in fact #long

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#complexities #expression #language #laws #natural

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#beard #black #brown #complexion #deficient

Gymnastics is so complex. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#science #systems #science

The Garden of Gethsemane narrative gives us a vivid view of Jesus' humanity". ~R. Alan Woods [1999] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#humanity-complexity #humanity-humans #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#humanity #humanity-complexity #lying #change

To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her, which is the most terrible bond of all ↗

— Henry Miller

#love