The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Kenneth E. BouldingThere is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
Kenneth E. BouldingPerhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth E. BouldingIt is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product
Kenneth E. Boulding