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Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and economics, we would all be better off if more people realised that simple nonlinear systems do not necessarily possess simple dynamical properties.

— Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics (1976)

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