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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

— Geoffrey West

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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

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