Comes and goes Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

“It is the system and its fragility, not events, that must be studied—what”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

— Saint Basil

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may…

— Jared Diamond

“Because of their composite nature, complex systems can exhibit catastrophic behavior.”

— Per Bak

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

— James F. Cooper

In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that…

— Giuseppe Peano

“The term we use for the unanticipated result from these interactions is emergence. While not all interactions create emergent effects, when emergence does occur…

— Rich Jolly

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel…

— Reggie Watts

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

— Avicenna

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has…

— Avicenna

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an…

— Mary Daly

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson