It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.