Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

It takes two to know one.