Quotes for All
The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos. Eric Voegelin
The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the \”underground scene\”. It’s what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses. El-P
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church Eddie Gibbs
This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as \”emergence,\” is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems. Fritjof Capra
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged. Fritjof Capra
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design. Fritjof Capra
It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. Friedrich August von Hayek
The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are … Read more
What we’re going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks…Explosives are getting more sophisticated. Dianne Feinstein
Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines… If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the … Read more