Bertalanffy Quotes

#1. Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement

Fritjof Capra

#2. The gospel of Jesus Christ is worth living for, yes, and it is worth dying for, of course, but we show it is supremely valuable to us when we deny ourselves and take up our crosses to be a blessing to the people who the gospel is calling us to.

Matt Chandler

#3. It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#4. We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#5. Mykonos, which probably meant it was time for them to get

Rick Riordan

#6. Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#7. You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

Bobby Locke

#8. This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Benjamin Tucker

#9. It was the truest, purest, saddest thing she had ever heard spoken. It was like hearing gospel for the first time, how it shocked you, how it made you afraid because you thought no one could see inside you.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee

#11. I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

Sean Connery

#12. The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#13. I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

Jane Goodall

#14. People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#15. I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated.

Madonna Ciccone

#16. Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#17. Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#18. Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment.

Julie Anne Long