Top 16 Bertalanffy's 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. Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In the cow-slip's bell i lie
There I couch when owls do cry
William Shakespeare
#3. 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
#4. Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Me and my old man went on a coach trip to Switzerland and Italy once and it was a whole hour further on there. Must be something to do with this Common Market. I don't hold with the Common Market and nor does Mr. Curtain. England's good enough for me.
Agatha Christie
#7. Recalled Sir Edward Spears, the wartime liaison between Churchill and de Gaulle. We had 15,000 French sailors at Liverpool. I went to speak to them. I tried to persuade them to continue the fighting. Impossible ...
Charles Kaiser
#8. Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#9. People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#10. 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
#11. morality would be undermined without a belief in divine judgment, but
J. Budziszewski
#12. It was a typically British birth ... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward ... I came out in sympathy.
Bob Hope
#13. What we call a brilliant thought is usually just a captivating expression which, with the help of a little truth, imposes a surprising error on us.
Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues
#14. Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#15. 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
#16. 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
