Kauffman Quotes

“You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.”

“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self-organization and selection. We will have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all.”

“I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.”

“When we wallow in anxiety and doubts, we subject ourselves to fear. When we focus on the greatness of God, we make fear subject to faith.”

“When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.”

“The God who made all things and has all power, loves us and hears our prayers.”

“Free and fearless courage comes from time spent with Jesus.”

“Do your part to help reap a harvest, and trust God to do His part.”

“The angels heralded the birth of the Savior, John the Baptist heralded the coming of the Savior, and we herald the gospel of the Savior.”