Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations….

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems….

No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in huma….

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

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say….

Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the….

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stabil….

Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from fa….

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world societ….

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure..

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theori….

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists..

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis..

Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to bui….

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine..

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to e….

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them..

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at a….

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world... La….

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government..