展望未来

爱因斯坦曾说，我从不去想什么未来，它来得够快的了。我们生活在一个瞬息万变的年代，人与社会、人与自然之间展开了新的对话，形成了复杂的关系网络。系统科学哲学犹如一叶小舟，在错综复杂的时光河流体系中激流潜行，探索着个人、社会、自然之间的系统复杂性。

系统科学与系统管理研究中心将继续践行立足本土、紧盯前沿、参天尽物、海纳百川、继承创新的研究理念，力求在以下几个方面取得更加重要的成就。本中心将继续追踪和把握系统科学哲学和复杂性管理的前沿和趋势，加强与国内外著名学术研究机构和团体的合作与交流，实现学科建设的重大跨越，在系统科学哲学、复杂性方法和系统管理及相关领域的研究达到国内领先的水平，使本中心真正成为国内外本领域研究的学术中心；建立教学与科研相结合的人才培养新模式，使研究生培养质量达到国内一流水平。

正如伽利略为牛顿建立简单系统理论铺平了道路一样，目前，建立复杂系统科学哲学理论的研究纲领和统一范式正处于一个需要“牛顿”出现的“伽利略”时代。这是我们对未来的想象，也是我们的理想。系统科学哲学和系统管理的研究是这一时代中充满挑战和机遇的领域，让我们以怀特海的格言为勉，为了系统科学中“牛顿”的出现这一理想而继续努力奋斗。

想象不是空穴来风，它把现实照亮，它让人理智地观察一个新世界，它通过预示令人满意的目标而使人保持对生活的热情。                        —— A. N. 怀特海

Einstein once said, “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” We are living in an era with rapid changes. A new dialogue is unfolded between human and society, human and nature, forming a complex relationship network. The Philosophy of Systems Science is just like a skiff, sailing in the torrents of the intricate time river, exploring the complexity of systems among individuals, society and nature.

The Systems Center will continue to focus on the local, keep a close eye on the frontier, exhaust all kinds of possibilities and embrace different types of things. With the mindset of both inheriting and innovating, it strives to make more important achievements in the following areas. The Center will continue to follow the forefront and trends of Philosophy of Systems Sciences and Complexity Management, strengthen cooperation and communication with domestic and world-renowned research institutions and organizations, realize major breakthroughs in discipline construction, reach the domestic leading level in the fields of Philosophy of Systems Sciences, Complexity Methods and Management, and become the academic center par-excellence in the related areas both at home and aboard. It aims to develop a talent-incubating mode with duo-focuses on teaching and conducting scientific research so as to enable our graduate students to reach the top level in China.

Just as Galileo who paved the way for Newton to establish the theory of simple systems, we are in the era of setting up the research outline and unified paradigm for the Science and Philosophy of Complex Systems, the "Galileo" era that requires the emergence of "Newton." This is our vision of the future and our ideal. The study of Philosophy of Systems Science and Systems Management is a field full of challenges and opportunities in this era. Let us take the dictum of Whitehead as our source of encouragement and strive for the emergence of "Newton" in Systems Science.

 “Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfying purposes.”             ——A. N. Whitehead