Quotes About Integration

That decision falls to scientists, engineers, and managers—with at least the tacit approval of company officers and boards of directors. All complex technology is inseparably coupled to an equally complex team of people and systems of people who should interact with one another as smoothly and with as clear a purpose as a set of well-meshed gears.

Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.

To divide life into areas of sacred and secular, letting our devotions take care of the former while becoming secular reformers during the week, is to fail to understand the true end of man

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.

Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?

Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history.

nothing other than the harmony of the individual limbs and parts, so that nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.

While Heisenberg had described the tusks and Schrodinger the trunk, the total elephant is so much more than its parts.

The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him—as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.

Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream.

In the attempt to be "relevant" one may fall into syncretism, and in the effort to avoid syncretism one may become irrelevant.

But one may acquire what MacIntyre calls a "second first language," a language which is learned in the same way that a child learns to use the native tongue. A missionary or an anthropologist who really hopes to understand and enter into the adopted culture will not do so by trying to learn the language in the way a tourist uses a phrasebook and a dictionary.

The value of the word contextualization is that it suggests the placing of the gospel in the total context of a culture at a particular moment, a moment that is shaped by the past and looks to the future.

separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible. More

When Jesus says to Simon, "Follow me," the response is a single act of faith and obedience; there is no gap between a mental action of believing and a bodily action of following. The human person is not a mind attached to a body but a single psychosomatic being.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

Entrepreneurs succeed when they function as bridges between different kinds of networks.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.