Equilibrium is dead,

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of ‘equilibrium’ that an organism appears so enigmatic;

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

LIVING MATTER EVADES THE DECAY TO EQUILIBRIUM

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY.

No social stability without individual stability.

no society with a wide power imbalance remains free for very long.

Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field.

The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches to that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend, as

There is no stable self that is carried along from one moment to the next.