Quotable Mathematics

"A Weltanschauung [worldview] is an intellectual construction which solves all the problems of our existence uniformly on the basis of ...

"[Systems thinking is] A new way to view and mentally frame what we see in the world; a worldview and way of thinking whereby we see th...

"Chemistry and physics are experimental sciences; and those who are engaged in attempting to enlarge the boundaries of science by exper...

"[…] mathematics is not just a symbolism, a set of conventions for the use of special, formal vocabularies, but is intimately connected...

"We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and ...

"Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reali...

"Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing the 'structures' that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from lo...

"Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method." (Richard Feynman, "Mainly mechanics, radiat...

All knowledge is profitable; profitable in its ennobling effect on the character, in the pleasure it imparts in its acquisition, as well as ...

"The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological ...

"Mathematicians do not agree among themselves whether mathematics is invented or discovered, whether such a thing as mathematical reali...

" And as the ideal in the whole of Nature moves in an infinite process toward an Absolute Perfection, we may say that art is in strict ...

"All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research […] Or finally, the cas...

"I propose a new concept based on an interpretation of ecosystems: sympoietic systems. These are complex, self-organizing but collectiv...

"Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or f...

"The concepts which now prove to be fundamental to our understanding of nature- a space which is finite; a space which is empty, so tha...