"We are far less powerful than we think, but have much more impact than we perceive" Mitchell Thomashow, 2002

"All is Flux" Heraclitus ca. 500 B.C. as quoted in Ulanowicz, 1986

"The desire for simplification is justified, but hte same does not always apply to simplification itself, which is a working hypothesis, useful as long as it is recognized as such and not mistaken for reality. The greater part of historical and natural phenomena are [sic] not simple, or not simple in the way that we would like" Levi, 1988

"Chance favors only the prepared mind" Louis Pasteur