Thomas Huxley Quotes

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.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

God is simple, everything else is complex

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

The simple and most complex answer is love.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

It takes a long time to make it simple.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.