This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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