Fabiola Gianotti Quotes

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

No one is any one thing.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Life mixes tones all the time.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

I think complexity is beautiful.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

I love to have contrast.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Simplicity is complexity resolved