Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Our control of organic nature is still in its in- fancy because it is so difficult for us to accustom ourselves to regarding it as anything but a mechanical artifact. But if we can acknowledge its specificity and value it will not exclude itself from either our knowledge or our will. Then the knowledge and conquest of organic nature will make good the injuries created by one-sided devotion to the inorganic in our world and in ourselves. The age of technology is becoming weary of itself-let us hope that an organismic one will follow it to offer new prospects to the future of humanity.