“We define a fruitful partnership between our twin professions of librarian and information systems scientist in support of this adventure in creativity, and the pursuit of wisdom? If it is the nature of the creative mind that it sets out to grapple with the tensions and contradictions in the "paradigm", as Kuhn calls it, it follows that first of all one must know what the paradigm is.”
Librarians and Information Systems (1995)
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Source: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (1989), p. 2, footnote 4.

“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115
Context: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

"The honey bee dance language controversy," The Mankind Quarterly, 1991, 357-365.
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"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”

Source: Object-oriented design: With Applications, (1991), p. 54
Source: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (1989), p. 2

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy