We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity and thereby giving rise neogenetically to emergent properties.