Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

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• The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron…
• Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science…
• The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
• Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
• Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.
• Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
• As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source…
• ... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present…
• Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
• Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
• With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
• The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.
• Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
• Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
• Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
• Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have…
• DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
• As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts…
• In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source…
• The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

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