“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.” - Poul Anderson from “The Ghost In the Machine”

When you look at a flower at a distance, you see a flower. Magnify the flower and you’ll notice the pedals. Magnify more and you’ll see the hairs on the stems. Magnify even more you may see cells. Keeping going and you’ll see atoms. With each level of magnification nature reveals that much more complexity.

And yet we yearn for an aphoristic view of the world.