Complexity of Life Quotes

Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.