"Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature,……" — Arthur Koestler
"Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas."
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110 Quotes by Arthur Koestler
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei,…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe.…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic…
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There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that…
— Samuel Johnson
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of…
— Bruce Alberts
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The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield…
— James Madison
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The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the…
— Helen Prejean
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The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the…
— James Madison
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In the assemblies of the enlightened ones there have been many cases of mastering the Way bringing forth the heart…
— Dogen
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Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of…
— Pope Pius X
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.
— Charles James Fox
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For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched…
— Robert Barclay
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