Ludwig von Bertalanffy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Attitude #Thinking #Organization
“People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.”
-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy

#Opportunity #People #Machines
“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

#Facts #Dogma #Criteria
“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

#Men #Differences #Psychology
“Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.”
-- Ludwig von Bertalanffy

#Progress #Differentiation #States

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