lewin: "Additionally, Lewin strongly emphasised the complementarity of basic and applied research.

Famous for the saying:

'There is Nothing So Practical as a Good Theory'

'If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.'


The power of Lewin's theorizing lay not in a formal propositional kind of theory but in his ability to build 'models' of processes that drew attention to the right kinds of variables that needed to be conceptualized"