Biological Complexity Quotes

#1. I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world ...

Roy Spencer

#2. With biological and neurological complexity entirely new families of affectionate fears, devoted threats and dedicated displeasures are birthed, and then with socioeconomic and cultural complexity comes a fresh ocean of new and unique illnesses.

John Zande

#3. Love & care for one another, gratitude & compassion are the ultimate state of being. This is living on the super-conscious level of life, seeing the soul of one another.

Alice Hocker

#4. Information and complexity go hand in hand.

Lee Spetner

#5. I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

Debbie Harry

#6. I sometimes feel," the president wrote, "that the world problems are getting worse instead of better. In our own country, however, in spite of sniping, 'chiseling' and growling by the extreme right and by the extreme left, we are actually putting people back to work and raising values.

Erik Larson

#7. Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.

Ann Druyan

#8. To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

John Updike

#9. Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can't imagine doing it without a dog. I'm 84, so I won't get a puppy.

Bud Grant

#10. Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

H. Rider Haggard

#11. They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

Rafael Correa

#12. I have all kinds of lovely ideas for games and the like." She glanced at Guthrie. "None require swordplay."
Guthrie shook his head. "Where's the fun in that?

Terry Spear

#13. All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Robert Grudin

#14. Only Norway regularly sends colonists from Europe, and we all know of that country's ecological disasters.

John Scalzi

#15. It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Patricia Briggs

#16. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.

Clifford Grobstein