John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1965)
“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.”
Response to the question "What is it about science that really gets your blood running?" — as quoted in Richard Dawkins in his eulogy for Adams (17 September 2001)
Context: The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And … the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
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Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi:
“Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.”
Beverly Sills (1929–2007) opera soprano
Thomas Merton, in New Seeds of Contemplation (1961)
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Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
Context: The complexity that we despise is the complexity that leads to difficulty. It isn't the complexity that raises problems. There is a lot of complexity in the world. The world is complex. That complexity is beautiful. I love trying to understand how things work. But that's because there's something to be learned from mastering that complexity.
Paul Ormerod book The Death of Economics
Part II, Chapter 8, The Dynamics of Unemployment, p. 162
The Death of Economics (1994)
Simon Conway Morris (1951) British palaeontologist
Source: Life's Solution (2003), p. 316.
“The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.”
Huston Smith book The World's Religions
The World's Religions (1991)