When in doubt, confronted with the complexities of the world, scientists have no choice but to play their cards as if they can win, as if the universe is indeed comprehensible.
However, even though videotapes are now featured in collections all over the world, many conservators, curators, and other collection caretakers are at a loss when first confronted with the complexities of viewing, cataloguing, and preserving analogue videotapes.
Nevertheless, I was there and I was confronted with the complexities of creating peace and I couldn't quit.
However, Brazilian cooperation is still a model in the making, and inconsistencies are starting to appear as its programme grows and is confronted with the complexities of projects' impact and sustainability in resources-poor African settings.
However, a closer view of contemporary engineering methods (inextricably interwoven with mathematical modelling and simulation) and of the situation in biology (inextricably confronted with the intrinsic complexity of biomolecular environments) demonstrates that tinkering in the lab is increasingly supported by rational design methods.
Being confronted with the detailed complexity of biomedical research, and being asked again and again for an 'opinion' (a consent), it is likely that at least some people will struggle with feelings of falling short – that their own competence or knowledge do not suffice.
But psychiatrists, confronted with the impenetrable complexities of the brain, were "forced to fall back upon the symptomatology of the disease — the apparent mental condition, as judged from the outward manifestations".
The search for surrogate species or surrogate data for biodiversity is confronted with this complexity.
Confronted with the embarrassment of complexity and faced with the challenge of overcoming inter-domain complexity, let us remember that integrative thinking does not spring out of models, indicators, or computer graphs, unless we put it into them.
