Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.

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

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 message.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?