Ervin László

Also known as Ervin Laszlo

Hungarian musician and philosopher

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Type: Person
Country: HU
Active from: 1932-05-12

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5 total works indexed

Statistical mechanics of complex networks
· 2002 · cited 16,016x
2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,608x
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
· 2000 · cited 6,986x
Electrophilicity Index
· 1999 · cited 6,963x
Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization
· 2004 · cited 6,489x

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Quotes

“We are living in a time of dissent, upheaval, revolutions and struggle, frequently aimed at mutual destruction.”
“With each technological ‘revolution’, more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the preceding epoch…On the whole, technological change is irreversible: whatever the nature of a technological revolution, it is always from the hoe to the plough, and not the other way around…Improvement generally means greater efficiency in the use of energy, materials, or information. It means greater speed, less investment of time and money, and operation on a larger scale.”
“In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation”
“[ Technology is] the instrumentality for accessing and using free energies in human societies for human and social purposes.”
“The new information technologies can be seen to drive societies toward increasingly dynamic high-energy regions further and further from thermodynamical equilibrium, characterized by decreasing specific entropy and increasingly dense free-energy flows, accessed and processed by more and more complex social, economic, and political structures.”
“Progressively higher levels of organization are attained as catalytic cycles on one level interlock and form hypercycles: these are systems on a higher level of organization. Thus molecules emerge from a combination of chemically active atoms; protocells emerge from sequences of complex molecules; eukaryotic cells emerge among the prokaryotes; metazoa make their appearance among the protozoa and converge in still higher-level ecological and social systems.”