Stuart Kauffman Quotes

#1. As the complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman puts it, A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine, not mere particles in motion.

David Eagleman

#2. It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?
If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an asshole, don't buy this CD. I don't care if you like me, I hate you.

Kurt Cobain

#4. Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

Stuart Kauffman

#5. When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Roger Babson

#6. A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.

Stuart Kauffman

#7. If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet - I choose heaven.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

John Edgar Wideman

#9. Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Booth Tarkington

#10. No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

Stuart Kauffman

#12. White does not exist in nature.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#13. Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

Annika Sorenstam

#14. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

Billy Sheehan

#15. I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

Gabrielle Aplin