Quote by Herbert Simon
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in c

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. – Herbert Simon

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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon

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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you cant practice to attain wisdom. – Herbie Hancock

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. – David Amram

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We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well – to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. – Matthew Modine

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