We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practic…

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could b…

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - w…

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namel…

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or wha…

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

- Ludwig Von Bertalanffy