#merge

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency. ↗

— Bjork

#again #age #another #century #collaborate

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives. ↗

— Julianne Davidow

#individual #lives #longing #love #merge

If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self-organization and selection. We will have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all. ↗

— Stuart A. Kauffman

#emergence #science #systems #life

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#i #lasting #maintain #nothing #useful

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#deep #effort #emerge #experience #explain

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#hands #iraq #kind #our #out

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#blood #drawing #during #emergency #faint

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits. ↗

— Lou Gerstner

#back #biscuits #combine #come #equals