James Gleick book Chaos: Making a New Science
Source: Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987, p. 23 as cited in John A. Rush (1996), Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts, p. 75
“The most essential example of the theory of self-organisation in chemistry is the theory of non-linear, non-equilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reactions presented by Prigogine and his co-workers.”
Source: Chemistry as an Interesting Subject for the Philosophy of Science, 2001, p. 195
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) austrian biologist and philosopher
General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory
Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 7, May The Best One Win, p. 141.
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) Indian revolutionary
As quoted in The Sikh Review, Vol. 55 (2007), p. 173
Context: Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.
John Henry Schwarz (1941) American theoretical physicist
p. 1
“Be present with your co-workers and staff.”
Masaaki Imai (1930) Japanese business theorist and consultant
“Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions.”
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (1987)
Context: Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. The concept of equilibrium is very useful. It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it. But the concept is also very deceptive. It has the aura of something empirical: since the adjustment process is supposed to lead to an equilibrium, an equilibrium position seems somehow implicit in our observations. That is not true. Equilibrium itself has rarely been observed in real life — market prices have a notorious habit of fluctuating.
Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) physical chemist
Source: Time, Structure and Fluctuations (1977), p. 1; Introduction.
“The earliest chemical theory was qualitative in the strictest sense”
J. R. Partington (1886–1965) British chemist
Introduction
Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students (1911)
Context: The earliest chemical theory was qualitative in the strictest sense; the so-called Aristotelean doctrine of the four elements assumed that air, water, earth, and fire, were qualities impressed on a primal matter; and the changes of material bodies were explained by the assumption that properties could be taken up by, and impressed upon, or removed from, the base-stuff. Transmutation as a possibility followed at once, and centuries of vain endeavour were required to impress the fact of its impossibility, leading to the true concept of element.