Sublime

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total

Here I should also acknowledge my debt to anarchist writers (Kropotkin, Bakunin, Malatesta, Proudhon) who consistently emphasize the role of mutuality as opposed to imperative, hierarchical coordination in the creation of social order. Their understanding of the term “mutuality” covers some, but not all, of the same ground that I mean to cover with

While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.

Bakke would often introduce AES’s management practices to the new group of colleagues by asking them what assumptions owners and managers of a typical factory hold about their workers.

In October 1947, Ben-Gurion, who was at the time head of the Jewish Agency, planned the formation of a committee to begin scientific military research (23). Yohanan Ratner was appointed director, E.D. Bergmann, G. Racah, and H. Heimann were members, and Aharon Katchalsky was secretary. The committee was responsible for controlling the budget and

On the other hand, this facility with abstract thought, coupled with the ability to collect ideas from other fields and even other dimensions, also accounts for the fact that most of the seminal thinkers in every discipline do this survival pattern.