"Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"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 will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand."
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Kenneth E. Boulding
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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
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A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
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