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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

Geoffrey West
Order, Law, Cities
"The Sameness of Organisms, Cities, and Corporations". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.