Complexity and Goethean science

From Daniel Wahl's "Zarte Empirie: Goethean Science as a Way of Knowledge" (Janus Head 8(1), 2005):

It is in the process-orientated understanding of the relationship between the whole and the parts that Goethean science and complexity theory meet. Both sciences understand the cyclical rather than linear causality that makes the part and the whole depend on each other in the symbiotic relationships of co-evolution. Both Goethean science and complexity theory are holistic sciences as they conceive wholes as being more than the sum of their parts. Both are paying attention to the interactions and dynamics of the whole and focus more on quality than quantity.