Gerald Weinberg - Scientists Quotes

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The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of several disciplines. How do they do it? When questioned, these generalists always express an inner faith in the unity of science. They, too, carry a single paradigm, but it is one taken from a much higher vantage point, one from which the paradigms of the different disciplines are seen to be very much alike, though often obscured by special language.

Gerald Weinberg

Let's hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn't we rather let a hundred flowers bloom...?

Gerald Weinberg

The general systems movement has taken up the task of helping scientists unravel complexity, technologists to master it, and others to learn to live with it.

Gerald Weinberg