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Kenneth Ewart Boulding
(18 Jan 1910 - 18 Mar 1993)
British-American economist, philosopher and peace activist who is internationally known, and wrote several books. After a few years teaching at the Universtity of Edinburgh, he moved in 1937 to the U.S. He advocated an ecological approach to economics.
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Science Quotes by Kenneth Ewart Boulding (7 quotes)
And as long as industrial systems have bowels
The boss should reside in the nest that he fouls.
Economists argue that all the world lacks is
A suitable system of effluent taxes.
The boss should reside in the nest that he fouls.
Economists argue that all the world lacks is
A suitable system of effluent taxes.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
In Kenneth Ewart Boulding and Richard P. Beilock (Ed.), Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms (1980, 2009), 3.
DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
From paper presented at Laramie College of Commerce and Industry, University of Wyoming, 'Energy and the Environment' (Jan 1976), 2, as quoted in Richard P. Beilock (ed.) Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms (1980, 2010), 160.
No shreds of dignity encumber
The undistinguished Random Number
He has, so sad a lot is his,
No reason to be what he is.
The undistinguished Random Number
He has, so sad a lot is his,
No reason to be what he is.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
In Kenneth Ewart Boulding and Richard P. Beilock (Ed.), Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms (1980, 2009), 153.
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.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
In 'The Skeleton of Science', General Systems Theory (1956). Collected in 'General Systems Theory—The Skeleton of Science', Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics (1968), 85.
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 law of evolution.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
The Organizational Revolution (1953), 252.
The river Mersey, a mile-wide estuary not unlike the Hudson, perhaps in my childhood even more filthy. We used to say “the quality of Mersey is not strained.”
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
In Kenneth Ewart Boulding and Richard P. Beilock (Ed.), Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms (1980, 2009), 3.
There is a curious illusion today that nature is both wise and good. The awful truth is that nature is a bitch from the human point of view I care about the whooping crane a little. I would even give $10 to save the whooping crane. The whooping crane doesn’t give a damn about me.
— Kenneth Ewart Boulding
From paper presented at Laramie College of Commerce and Industry, University of Wyoming, 'Energy and the Environment' (Jan 1976), 12, as quoted in Kenneth Ewart Boulding and Richard P. Beilock (ed.), Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms (1980, 2009), 153.
See also:
- Kenneth Ewart Boulding - context of “DNA …. Xerox Machine” quote - Medium image (500 x 350 px)
- Kenneth Ewart Boulding - context of “DNA …. Xerox Machine” quote - Large image (800 x 600 px)
- Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms, by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and Richard P. Beilock (ed.). - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Kenneth Boulding.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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