The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

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.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

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

No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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 any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.