However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.
Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.
New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in.
The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.
Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.
We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.
In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.
A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.
