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.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

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

There are no monotone "values" in biology.