With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

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.

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 build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.