Quotable Mathematics

  "Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of an...

"Indeed, except for the very simplest physical systems, virtually everything and everybody in the world is caught up in a vast, nonline...

"Every system of whatever size must maintain its own structure and must deal with a dynamic environment, i.e., the system must strike a...

"At the other far extreme, we find many systems ordered as a patchwork of  parallel operations, very much as in the neural network of a...