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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

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The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: July 15th, 1904

Died: June 9th, 2007

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