"Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree."
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree.
About this quote
Murray Gell-Mann wrote this in The Quark and the Jaguar (1994), his only popular science book, which explored the relationship between simplicity and complexity in the universe. By the 1990s Gell-Mann had shifted much of his attention from particle physics to the science of complex adaptive systems at the Santa Fe Institute. The observation about global interconnectedness anticipated many themes later associated with systems thinking and network science.
Source
The Quark and the Jaguar, 1994