"Stephen Jay Gould is extremely bright, inventive. He thoroughly understands paleontology; he thoroughly understands e…"

"Francisco Varela is amazingly inventive, freewheeling, and creative. There's a lot of depth in what he and Humberto M…"

"The strange thing about the theory of evolution is that everyone thinks he understands it. But we do not. A biosphere…"

"It would be a triumph to find universal laws of organization for life, ecosystems, and biospheres. The candidate crit…"

"The famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli is said to have remarked that the deepest pleasure in science comes from finding …"

"The onset of evolutionism brought with it the concept of branching phylogenies. The branching image, so clear and suc…"

"Living systems exist in the solid regime near the edge of chaos, and natural selection achieves and sustains such a p…"

"Evolution is not just "chance caught on the wing". It is not just a tinkering of the ad hoc, of bricolage, of contrap…"

"Life does not depend on the magic of Watson-Crick base pairing or any other specific template-replicating machinery. …"

"If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is be…"