“If someone were to analyze current notions and fashionable catchwords, he would find "systems" high on the list. The concept has pervaded all fields of science and penetrated into popular thinking, jargon and mass media.”

Source: General System Theory (1968), 1. Introduction, p. 3

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austrian biologist and philosopher 1901–1972

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