Bifurcation Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

— Pierre Reverdy

“all these complex systems have somehow acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point—often called…

— M. Mitchell Waldrop

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a…

— Michael Crichton

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.”

— Fritjof Capra

Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis…

— Hyman Minsky

“In the opening chapter Piaget describes equilibrium as “…a process leading from certain states of near equilibrium to others, qualitatively different, through multiple disequilibria…

— Ulrich Müller

“when equilibria are perturbed, bad things can happen”

— Martin J. Blaser

“what we call a chaotic system—meaning that its adjacent solutions diverge exponentially in time.”

— Anne McCaffrey

“If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16…

— Gary William Flake

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results…

— Fritjof Capra