Ludwig von Bertalanffy A Pioneer of General Systems Theory (1901 (1901 - 1972) 1972) Aamod Kore Ishita Ray Revathy Sivasankaran
Vienna, Austria
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“ Th The ch charact cteristic c of life does not lie in a distinctiveness of of sin ingle le lif life pr processes, but but rat athe her in n a a certai ain n order among all the processes . ”
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Lofti Zadeh Jacques Monod 1910 - 1976 1921 - 2017 “ What I consider sterile is the attitude of “ … the work of Bertalannfy, motivated Bertalanffy, saying that all analytical science primarily by problems arising in the study of and biology doesn’t get interesting results; let’s biological systems, is much more empirical and talk in terms of general systems theory … there qualitative than the work of those who cannot be any [such] thing, or, if it existed, it received their training in exact sciences. ” would be meaningless. ”
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