Donella Meadows
Sign in to saveAlso known as Donella Hager Meadows, Donella H. Meadows
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)
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Top works
- Grenzen des Wachstums - Das 30-Jahre-Update
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5 total works indexed
- Chronic Health Conditions in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
· 2006 · cited 3,156x
- Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,425x
- The Limits to Growth: A report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
· 1972 · cited 2,120x
- Discovering High-Affinity Ligands for Proteins: SAR by NMR
· 1996 · cited 1,792x
- Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial
· 2021 · cited 1,539x
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Quotes
- “Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.”
- “The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”
- “Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”
- “The future can't be predicted, but it can be envisioned and brought lovingly into being. Systems can't be controlled, but they can be designed and redesigned. We can't surge forward with certainty into a world of no surprises, but we can expect surprises and learn from them and even profit from them.”
- “Before you disturb the system in any way, watch how it behaves. If it's a piece of music or a whitewater rapid or a fluctuation in a commodity price, study its beat. If it's a social system, watch it work. Learn its history.”
- “Starting with the behavior of the system forces you to focus on facts, not theories. It keeps you from falling too quickly into your own beliefs or misconceptions, or those of others.”
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