Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

In nature and state, it is safer to change many things than one.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

People like things that change. They don't like stagnant things.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.