Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share
