"With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on."

-- Fritjof Capra

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“Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.”

Source : "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.
“I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.”
“For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!”

Source : Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Being injured is quite an awkward situation to be in mentally. Physically, it's quite good to have a bit of a rest, but mentally it's hell.”
“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”
“My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.”
“Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.”

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