60 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

The economy of the future might be called the “spaceman economy,” in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.