Stuart Kauffman > Quotes

“Life’s branching organisms create new niches faster than new organisms arise to live in those new niches. The biosphere explodes in diversity. Organisms “make a living” with one another: my refuse is your food. My solid surface affords a place on which you can crawl or run. Reindeer run on the permafrost. The permafrost now melts, the reindeer stagger, the Lapps lose their herds after thousands of years of a stable lifestyle. We all make our livings with one another.”
― Stuart Kauffman

“Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.”
― Stuart Kauffman

“History arises when the space of possibilities is too large by far for the actual to exhaust the possible.”
― Stuart Kauffman