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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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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert Simon

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – 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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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. – Polykarp Kusch

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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means. – Steve Sabol

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. – Italo Calvino

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And Im walking along and were laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. – Betty Hill

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