Activity Quote by Josef Muller-Brockmann

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

— Gary Snyder

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

— Jostein Gaarder

“One may first point to the obvious fact that a given social order precedes any individual organismic development. That is, world-openness, while intrinsic to…

— Peter L. Berger

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is…

— Karl Marx

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in…

— Aristotle

But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos,…

— Arthur David Ritchie

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes…

— Humphry Davy

Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th…

— Catherine Wilson

Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“A recognized fact which goes back to the earliest times is that every living organism is not the sum of a multitude of unitary…

— Walter Hess