Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high.How I love them! How I need them!I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.