Above the level of biology, in the realm of individual psychology, thousands of different traits, quirks, beliefs and habits coalesce around values to make you, "you." And at the social scale, we form relationships with others. We form intimate bonds, we lead, and we follow. We are limited by our relationships; you can't just do whatever you want whenever you want. I have young children - I know this! But of course we also become a part of something larger: a family, a community, and so on. Each of us is not as dumb as a neuron, but still the comparison applies between groups of neurons and groups of people. Systems research focuses on relationships among numerous parts; we put things together to understand the emergence of wholes, whereas most science tears things apart. Nonlinear dynamical systems theory takes a completely different view on the relationship between parts and wholes from traditional science dating back to the time of Newton. And just as Newton was a revolutionary in his conception of the universe as a single whole, united under the common laws of motion and gravity, nonlinear dynamical systems theory is revolutionary as well in its ability to unite physics, biology, chemistry and even psychology under common principles of emergent order, from parts to wholes to new parts and still larger wholes. This approach to science is leading us toward greater integrity in our views of the natural world, toward universal principles of complexity and order.