Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no cr…

- Stuart Kauffman

A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state…

- Stuart Kauffman

It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to s…

- 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

Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.

- Stuart Kauffman

Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or …

- Stuart Kauffman

A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine, not mere particles in…

- Stuart Kauffman