Systems theory Quote by Ervin Laszlo

“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws…

— Leon M. Lederman

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“It is important to distinguish between reductionism as a philosophical posi- tion (or world-view) and as a methodology. Reductionism in the former sense is…

— E. Brian Davies

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try…

— David Chalmers

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

— John Maeda

Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity, roughly corresponding…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Up until now, some of us actually thought that we created and organized the systems in which we work. But should it turn out…

— Harrison Owen

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and…

— Robert Barry

For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are created through…

— Vandana Shiva