Quote by Herbert Simon
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. – Herbert Simon

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Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves. – Herbert Simon

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Technology
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Most of us really arent horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. – Herbert Simon

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Nature
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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. – Ellsworth Huntington

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Knowledge

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that its more dangerous to lose than to win. – George Bernard Shaw

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Knowledge

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Knowledge

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

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Knowledge

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When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. – Mary H. Waldrip

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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because theres a passion and theres something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool. – Cameron Crowe

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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians. – Spock from Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”

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