Quotes About Interconnectedness

In general, then, a universal characteristic of a complex system is that the whole is greater than, and often significantly different from, the simple linear sum of its parts.

can any of this be sustainable?

Man findet Spuren aller Wissenschaften in den Sprachen, und umgekehrt vieles in den Sprachen das in den Wissenschaften nützen kann.

Sixty-some years ago, biochemical organisms began to assemble digital computers. Now digital computers are beginning to assemble biochemical organisms. Viewed from a distance, this looks like part of a life cycle. But which part? Are biochemical organisms the larval phase of digital computers? Or are digital computers the larval phase of biochemical organisms?

There is a unifying force behind all manifestations of nature, which we cannot fully comprehend, but we can try to explain it with the means at our disposal," says Nicholas Vonneumann,

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgiveableness.

When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.

Parvati's oriental ability to see that everything was, from a certain point of view, everything else, baffled and charmed his Aristotelian western mind.

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

I think we belong to each other.

We are all acquaintances now

Every atom in me has a long history during which it may have been part of many living things, including human beings, and during which it may also have spent long periods as part of the sea, or in a lump of coal, or in a rock, or as a portion of the wind blowing upon us.

We of Solaria alone learned how life was to be lived. We did not herd and flock like animals, as they did on Earth, as they did on other worlds, as they did even on the other Spacer worlds. We lived each alone, with robots to help us, viewing each other electronically as often as we wished, but coming within natural sight of one another only rarely.

Nobody lives in splendid singleness.

Cada tribu tenía un shabono, una gran choza común en forma circular, techada con paja y abierta hacia un patio interior. Vivían todos juntos, compartiendo desde la comida hasta la crianza de los niños. Sin embargo, el contacto con los extranjeros estaba acabando con las tribus: no sólo les contagiaban enfermedades del cuerpo, también otras del alma.

Like a luminous spiderweb, Popo. The threads of that web connect everything that exists. I can't explain it to you. When you die, you're going to travel like that comet, and I'll be right behind, attached to your tail." "We'll be astral dust.

Everything in the universe is connected. Forget about distances, about time, and realize that everything takes place in an unending present, in this very forest, in your memory, in your heart.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

It is not the services we render them, but the services they render us, that attaches people to us.

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.