Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes About Discipline
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[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
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General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.
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The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
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