Cohesion Quote by Walter Rudolf Hess

“Uncertainty is the problem that our brains evolved to solve. Resolving uncertainty is a unifying principle across biology, and thus is the inherent task…

— Beau Lotto

“Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity…

— Clifford Grobstein

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts,…

— Christopher Alexander

“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand…

— Stuart Kauffman

“The only two approaches to dealing with uncertainty are design and default. When you operate by default, your biology, which is wired for comfort,…

— Todd Henry

I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

— Scott D. Anthony

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

— Barry Commoner

“The broader appeal of statistics lay in the idea of an order beneath apparent randomness. Individuals—molecules or humans—might act unpredictably, but statistics seemed to…

— Louis Menand

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading…

— Joseph Needham

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon…

— Richard Owen

“Yet, the principle of uncertainty is a bad name. In science or outside of it, we are not uncertain. Our knowledge is merely confined…

— Jacob Bronowski

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

— Trofim Lysenko