There's a very interesting scientific insight which says that regions where real novelty occurs, where really new things happen that you haven't seen before, are always regions which are at the edge of chaos. They are regions where cloudiness and clearness, order and disorder, interlace each other. If you're too much on the orderly side of that borderline, everything is so rigid that nothing really new happens, you just get rearrangements. If you're too far on the haphazard side, nothing persists, everything just falls apart. It's these ambiguous areas where order and disorder interlace, where really new things happen, where the action is.
John Polkinghorne, speaking on Being with Krista Tippett
For some reason, as well as being deep and meaningful, this quote puts me in mind of these (from here).
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