"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."

Complexity, Diversity, Evolution

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"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."

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"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."

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"Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface."

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"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."

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"You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet."

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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."

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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."

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"Just a single cord is enough to be tangled."

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"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."

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"Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special."

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"I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity."

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"You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars."

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"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."

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"We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game."

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"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history."

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"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."

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"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."

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"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up."

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