We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.