Behavior Quote by William Irwin Thompson

“It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.”

William Irwin Thompson

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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

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