The world is stranger than we can imagine, and surprises are inevitable in science. Thus, we found, for example, that pesticides increase pests, antibiotics can create pathogens, agricultural development creates hunger, and flood control leads to flooding. But some of these surprises could have been avoided if the problems had been posed big enough to accommodate solutions in the context of the whole. — —T. Awerbach, A. Kiszewski and R. Levins, “Surprise, Nonlinearity and Complex Behavior in Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change: Concepts and Methods,” 2002
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51