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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes | |
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 3 likes | |
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes | |
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 2 likes | |
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes | |
It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes | |
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system. | |
Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas. |
Ancient Greek
The totality is not a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts. Πάντων γαρ όσα πλείω μέρη έχει και μη έστιν οίον σωρός το παν. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |