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Quotes About Emergence

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.
~ Shervin Pishevar
the realization that you are not condemned to your habits, that you can indeed emerge from them, that you can change, and grow more and more free.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.
~ Stefan Zweig
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
~ Francis Bacon
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.
~ Arthur Koestler
Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.
~ Mike Hulme
Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
~ John Stuart Mill
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
~ Michael Crichton
Whether you see the world as emergent or, deteriorating. We have long known that some people favor innovation and look positively toward the future while others are frightened of change and want to halt innovation.
~ Michael Crichton
And finally, as if to emphasize their emergence from academia into the world, they dressed and spoke with what one senior mathematician called "a deplorable excess of personality.
~ Michael Crichton
Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.
~ Michael Crichton
In the beginning, it is always dark.
~ Michael Ende
there is no name for what he's looking for, which, typically, is a technology, or an idea, on the cusp of commercial viability. The new new thing.
~ Michael Lewis
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others
~ Michael Ondaatje
Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.
~ Steve Erickson
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.
~ George Will
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Obviously, the Sixties was a time when everyone wanted to experiment, and then everything became very formulated and corporate, so artists tended to get pushed into a kind of pattern. Now, I think that has continued with the emergence of televised talent shows like 'X Factor.'
~ Steve Winwood
As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it.
~ Bill Bryson
For the first 99.99999 per cent of our history as organisms, we were in the same ancestral line as chimpanzees. Virtually nothing is known about the prehistory of chimpanzees, but whatever they were, we were. Then, about seven million years ago, something major happened. A group of new beings emerged from the tropical forests of Africa and began to move about on the open savanna. These
~ Bill Bryson
Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help—perhaps a good deal of help.
~ Bill Bryson
As Davies puts it, "If everything needs everything else, how did the community of molecules ever arise in the first place?
~ Bill Bryson