Barren Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding Download Open image “Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.” — Kenneth E. Boulding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Barren Barren Facts Facts Facts Barren Facts Theories May Meaningless Theories Meaningless Theory
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and… — Raphael Gasson Copy Share Image
“All facts are. In a world where everything is given and nothing is explained, the fecundity of a value or of a metaphysic is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich Copy Share Image
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