There is a revolutionary scientific perspective (stemming) from the General Systems Research movement and (with a) wealth of principles, ideas and insights that have already brought higher degree of scientific order and understanding to many areas as of biology, psychology and some physical sciences... Modern systems research can provide the basic of a framework more capable of doing justice to the complexities and dynamic properties of the socio-cultural system.

p. vii as cited in: cited in: Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1968) General System Theory. p. 7-8. - Sociology and modern systems theory (1967)