“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.”— Philip Warren Anderson
“The dark side of the paradigm of emergence is that it is a license to be stupid.”— Robert B. Laughlin
“Emergence means complex systems and complexity, to be sure, but it also means that the whole is not only more than but also very different from the sum of its parts.”— Robert B. Laughlin