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I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Any Believe Complexity Could Describe Experience Fact Her Hesitate His In Fact Intelligence Know Mind More Much My Own Nature Number Own Person Potential Really Reflect System Than Uniqueness Iq

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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

~David Christian

Topics: Complex Complexity Creates Creatures Desperately Extremely Fragility How Know Means Need Story Universe Vulnerability Why

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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

~David Christian

Topics: Also Beings Believe Big Collective Complexity Course Dangers Development Face Fragility History Human Human Beings Learning Mark Nature Only Our Part Picture Planet Power Show Threshold Us I Believe

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The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

~David Deutsch

Topics: Any Complexity Contain Deepest Explanations Hierarchy Level Nor Particular Privileged Referring Scale Size Theories Truly

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Titan has rivers and lakes of liquid methane and ethane, methane weather systems of clouds and storms that mirror Earth's hydrologic cycle, and seasonal cycles that rival Earth's in complexity.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Clouds Complexity Cycle Cycles Earth Lakes Liquid Mirror Rival Rivers Storms Systems Weather

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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'

~David Lagercrantz

Topics: Also Always Capture Certainly Complexity Eye Father Good Heaven Life Matter Quality Read See Sell Want Write You

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I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

~David Shields

Topics: Books Complexity Culture Diversity Having Internet Language Like Literature Make Offers Original Sense Still Syntax Until Up Violence

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Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

~David Whyte

Topics: Attempting Change Complexity Eliminate Reality Stop Trying

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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: Complexity Drinks Good In My Opinion Interest Like Me Opinion Terms Value Very While Wine

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Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Come Complexity Convenient Everyone Explore Just Know No Reason Reason Say Something Stereotypes Takes Them Time Will Within You

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