Source: Information Science in Theory and Practice (1987), p. v; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
“[There has been] a widening of the field covered by the concept of “information”, both its theory and its practice. Information transfer has been put on a par with the transfer of matter and energy, as one of the primary natural processes.’”
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7: Introduction.
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Source: The Matter Myth: Towards 21st-century Science (1991), Ch. 1: 'The Death of Materialism', p. 9
Source: Information Science in Theory and Practice (1987), p. 1; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
B.C. Vickery (1997) "Metatheory and information science," Journal of Documentation, 53(5), p. 460.
Preface; First paragraph
Information Systems (1973)

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
“The principles of information science apply, whatever the medium of transfer.”
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 9.
General System Theory (1968), 4. Advances in General Systems Theory
Source: The Displacement Of Population In Europe, 1943, p. 25 as cited in: David L. Sills (1968) International encyclopedia of the social sciences - Volumes 13-14. p. 363