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Complexity theory is really a movement of the sciences.

— W. Brian Arthur

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As we begin to understand complex systems, we begin to understand that we’re part of an ever-changing, interlocking, non-linear, kaleidoscopic world.

W. Brian Arthur in: Mitchell M. Waldrop (2004)

Increasing-returns economics has roots that go back 70 years or more, but its application to the economy as a whole is largely new.

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy (1994)

More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being.

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (2009)

A technology that by chance gains an early lead in adoption may eventually 'corner the market' of potential adopters, with the other technologies becoming locked out.

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events (1989)

[Market outcomes] depends on the cumulation of random events.

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events (1989)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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