Complex System Quotes

No man is big enough to run this great republic.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

The process of birth and the growth of human body into a complicated system are still a marvel for me.

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

The Premier League is really nice, it's wonderful. It is also quite difficult to explain certain things. You need to experience them personally to take it all in.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we've seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences.

The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.