xx ;;Quote: biological concepts are simple but they include extreme complexity; otherwise no theory or no need for a theory

1 ;;Quote: our universe is not chaos; we perceive and name beings and objects that have stable structures

1 ;;Quote: reality undergoes constant change; the purpose of science is to predict and explain these changes

2 ;;Quote: even though science denies indeterminism, science is needed because the causes of change are unknown or unobservable

14 ;;Quote: bifurcation forms lie at the threshold between two or more basins of attraction; their appearance oscillates between the attractors

15 ;;Quote: scientific experimentation is only possible if the process is structurally stable w.r.t. the initial state and environmental interactions

16 ;;Quote: under quantum mechanics, all measurement irreversibly changes a process, and the only stability is statistical

16 ;;Quote: preparing two electrons in the same state is equivalent to breeding two ducks with the same heredity

20 ;;Quote: the possible shapes of an animal has similar properties with the possible shapes of a handwritten letter

21 ;;Quote: catastrophe or bifurcation points are those points with some discontinuity in every neighborhood; defines morphology

126 ;;Quote: phenomena can either be unstable or more or less deterministic; determinism isn't an issue

222 ;;Quote: life is consciousness of space and time; competition for space is one of the primitive forms of biological interaction

290 ;;Quote: if evolution is governed by chance, then why has it produced more and more complex structures, including human intelligence?

290 ;;Quote: sodium and potassium exist because there is a corresponding mathematical structure guaranteeing their stability

290+;;Quote: there are geometric objects in biology that prescribe the only possible forms capable of self-reproduction

291 ;;Quote: to assert that a unique and unrepeatable phenomenon occurs according to plan is gratuitous and otiose; e.g., the wave of evolution

295 ;;Quote: when solar photons hit the earth, they change abruptly to heat; life smoothes out the discontinuity

295+;;Quote: a plant is nothing but an upheaval of the earth toward the light

322 ;;Quote: very few phenomena depend on simple, mathematical laws--gravitation, light, and electricity; tied to geometry of space and statistical effects

322+;;Quote: the success of 19c physics lead to the belief that all phenomena can be explained in a similar way; including life and thought

322 ;;Quote: the human brain with its subtle esthetic sensibility will remain irreplaceable for ages to come

322+;;Quote: science needs more than finite description; must address the unformalizable, catastrophes

323 ;;Quote: the first step in understanding the unformalizable is dynamical models that are compatible with a given morphology