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It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

"Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics" by Kenneth E. Boulding (p. 141), as quoted in "Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature" by John Laurent, (p. 175), 2003.
It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.