Cyberneticist

🇩🇪Niklas Luhmann

Philosophy

1927–1998

"Whatever we know about society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also of our knowledge of nature."

🇬🇧I. A. Richards

Literature

1893–1979

"The chief lesson to be learnt from it is the futility of all argumentation that precedes understanding. We cannot profitably attack any opinion until we have discovered what it expresses as well as what it states."