Closed System

The term closed system has different meanings in different contexts.

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Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or system:

    “No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)