Quotes About Systems

Too many physicians continued their adherence to grand philosophical systems

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

Clinton grew up working-class, and had spent a lifetime in public service and government generally accepting the frameworks of those systems. Trump, the son of a wealthy man, showed no interest in them. And he had no compunction about being seen as using the government as if it were an extension of himself.

If you learn how to read the different operating systems and how they affect people's behavior, you will be much safer.

For the first two or three centuries there were no systems of composed forms of prayer used in any church whatever, as hath been proved.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

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Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

How do politicians cope with the challenges of predicting or manipulating the future, given that we can have only partial knowledge of the systems being analysed? 'I think that's rather a flattering account of what goes on here. With some notable exceptions it's mostly a bunch of very egotistical people, very ambitious people, who are primarily interested in their own careers.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Ixion music and party are our only beliefs. Darkness is our comfort. We have few rules but they are absolute. Your endocrine systems have been altered by changes to your hypothalamus. You no longer need to sleep or see sunlight.' More titters and cheers.

I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

I think humankind is going to have to evolve into systems that are more transparent. Then people will be able to make more integral choices about the food they eat.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.