Alfred Korzybski, 1933

“Again the organism works as-a-whole. All forms of human activities are interconnected. It is impossible to select a special characteristic and treat it in a delusional [...] ‘isolation’ as the most important. Science becomes an extra-neural extension of the human nervous system. We might expect the structure of the nervous system to throw some light on the structure of science; and, vice versa, the structure of science might elucidate the workings of the human nervous system.

This fact is important, semantically, and usually is not sufficiently emphasized or analyzed enough. When we take these undeniable facts into account, we find the results already reached to be quite natural and necessary, and we understand better why an individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure...”

-Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity (1933:376-77)