Brian Cox Quotes

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

Simple things are always the most difficult.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Life is extremely complicated.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.

Some things were beyond understanding.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!