"There are two kinds of truth. There are superficial truths, the opposite of which are obviously wrong. But there are also profound truths, whose opposites are equally right."

--Niels Bohr


"Scientific knowledge, originally seen to make possible the prediction and manipulation of nature, appears now to be pointing us toward a new relationship with the natural world based on sensitive observation and participation, rather than control."

--Brian Goodwin




"Fasten your seat belts, the turbulence has scarcely begun. Unless evolution has radically changed its ways, we are facing an explosion of societal diversity and complexity hundreds of times greater than we now experience or can yet imagine. If we think to perpetuate the old ways, we should try to recall the last time evolution rang our number and asked consent."

--Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age



"If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost: that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them."

--Henry David Thoreau



"Good jazz players, when they hear a surprise, don't ask, what did you intend to do? They act on what they heard and they create."

--Reuben McDaniel


"A society that relies on generalized reciprocity is more efficient than a distrustful society, for the same reason that money is more efficient than barter. Trust lubricates social life. Networks of civic engagement also facilitate coordination and communication and amplify information about the trustworthiness of other individuals."

--Robert D. Putnam



"Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick."

--Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age




"Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all."

--Albert Camus



"In an unknowable world, sensemaking is not a matter of doing the best we can because we are stupid; rather it is the best we can do because we are smart."

--Reuben McDaniel



"These communities did not become civic simply because they were rich. The historical record strongly suggests precisely the opposite: They have become rich because they were civic. The social capital embodied in norms and networks of civic engagement seems to be a precondition for economic development, as well as for effective government. Development economists take note: Civics matters. How does social capital undergird good government and economic progress? First, networks of civic engagement foster sturdy norms of generalized reciprocity…"

--Robert D. Putnam



"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise; For though she has no chief, no commander or ruler, She procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the harvest."

--Proverbs VI, 6



"Given the power and ubiquity of thes human tendencies toward inertia, dualism, linearity, and reduction, it can be no surprise that the scientific establishment rewards those who color within the lines. It can also be no shock to realize that all useful advance must come from deviation outside of those lines. Thinking new thoughts is, after all, impossible for most, difficult for all, frightening for many–and irresistible for some few poor souls. This is dangerous in science and can be deadly in medicine."

--William J.M. Hrushesky, "Triumph of the Trivial"



"Is anyone afraid of change? Why, what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing to the universal nature? And canst thou take a bath unless the wood undergoes a change? And canst thou be nourished unless the food undergoes a change? And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Dost thou not see then that for thyself also to undergo change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?"

--Marcus Aurelius Antonius



"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘what good is it?’ If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of eons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

--Aldo Leopold "Round River," A Sand County Almanac, 190.



"Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe."

--Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age



"Over-socialization increases the probability that people will change to fit the organization rather than that people will change the organization so that it can cope with developing situations."

–J.G. March, Organization Science



"The manager's task is not to know what is going on and then tell others in the organization what to do. Rather, the manager's task is to create an organizational environment in which learning is highly valued and in which people listen to and respect insights and understandings that are different than their own."

–Reuben R. McDaniel, Jr. & Michelle E. Walls, Journal of Management Inquiry



"To see a World in a grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour."

--William Blake



"The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice."

--Anonymous



"Prediction is difficult, especially of the future."

--Mark Twain (also attributed to Niels Bohr)



"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

--Eden Phillpots



"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

--Benoit Mandelbrot



"Fasten your seat belts, the turbulence has scarcely begun. Unless evolution has radically changed its ways, we are facing an explosion of societal diversity and complexity hundreds of times greater than we now experience or can yet imagine. If we think to perpetuate the old ways, we should try to recall the last time evolution rang our number and asked consent."


--Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age



""Explicit knowledge is that knowledge that is written down or in a knowledge base. Tacit knowledge is that knowledge that is in the heads of the people. The greatest knowledge base in the company is the tacit knowledge in the heads of the people that is continually changing and evolving."

--Robert Buckman, CEO, Buckman Labs

QUOTE

"There are two kinds of truth. There are superficial truths, the opposite of which are obviously wrong. But there are also profound truths, whose opposites are equally right." --Niels Bohr

this is a really good quote.  But the question inevitably arises, what are these profound truths?   I can think of some, but it would be interesting to list all of the ones we can think of.  

well im not sure i get it.
is it a "look before you leap" and "he who hesitates is lost" kind of thing?
or is it about particle-time-wave-space-energy stuff?
or does this even apply to the nature of reality and existance?
i need help gettin started here

Wouldn't it be WILD if we all woke up one day and realized all we'd really been doing all this time was looking in a mirror?