Integration

"...way a knowledge-system is knit together is to learn at least a minimum knowledge-of-knowledge, until someday — someday, or some century — an Integrator would come, and things would be fitted together again. So time mattered not at all"

"Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly."

"The powers which tend to preserve, and those which tend to change the condition of the earth's surface, are never in equilibrio; the latter are, in all cases, the most powerful, and, in respect of the former, are like living in comparison of dead forces. Hence the law of decay is one which suffers no exception: The elements of all bodies were once loose and unconnected, and to the same state nature has appointed that they should all return... TIME performs the office of integrating the infinitesimal parts of which this progression is made up; it collects them into one sum, and produces from them an amount greater than any that can be assigned."

"Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way … Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science."

"The success and originality of American integration stem precisely from the fact that immigrants' descendants can perpetuate their ancestral cultures while thinking of themselves as Americans in the fullest sense, sharing basic ideals across racial and ethnic barriers. In France, the characteristic attitude of newcomers from North Africa, Turkey, and sub-Saharan Africa is predominantly one of alienation, confrontation, rejection, and hatred."

"It's in the black players and it remains there. The National League was the first to sign black players and remained ahead all these years. And so many outstanding players are black that it's hard to have an outstanding team without your share of black players. It seemed like the National League teams were willing to sign any promising prospect regardless of color, while the American League was only interested in the outstanding, can't-miss black prospect. And if you don't sign the raw talent that needs a few years to develop, you lose out on some outstanding players."

"There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity."

"This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us."

"It may appear as a superficial inequality, one that can be solved by merely a few reforms, or perhaps by the full integration of women into the labour force. But the reaction of the common man, woman, and child."

"The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter."

"A true balance between work and life comes with knowing that your life activities are integrated, not separated."

"Globalization (or Globalisation) is the increasing interdependence, integration and interaction among people and corporations in disparate locations around."

"Zwischen Kapitalismus und Demokratie besteht ein unauflösliches Spannungsverhältnis; mit beiden konkurrieren nämlich zwei entgegengesetzte Prinzipien der gesellschaftlichen Integration um den Vorrang."

"Und so ist letztlich an der Frage der Gleichberechtigung der Frau die Integration einer großen Zahl von Türken in Deutschland gescheitert. Wir müssen hingucken und uns eine ganze Menge einfallen lassen, wie wir die Muslime aus dem Getto der Parallelgesellschaft herausholen und ihnen eine aktive Integration abverlangen können."

"SPD und Grüne müssen endlich lernen, dass Integration nicht über eine Aufweichung und Zurücksetzung unserer eigenen Leitkultur und Werteordnung laufen darf."

"...und dies Kopftuch hat keineswegs ausschließlich mit Unterdrückung zu tun. Das hat auch was mit Stolz und Identität zu tun. Und oft sind es auch diese jungen Frauen mit Kopftuch, die viel besser Deutsch können und viel besser integriert sind, als ihre vollkommen überassimilierten, bauchnabelgepiercten Arschgeweihschwestern."

"Man muss offen sagen, die Religion des Islam erlaubt die Integration nicht. Ein Muslim darf sich einem Nichtmuslimen nicht fügen. Wenn er in der Diaspora lebt, dann ist das eine Notsituation, und er kann sich absondern. Das besagt die normale Religion und nicht die fundamentalistische Variante."

"Der Prozess der gesamteuropäischen Integration wird offenbar ein sehr kompliziertes, simultanes Spiel auf vielen Schachbrettern zugleich sein."