Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Banquet speech (10 December 1978)

Herbert A. Simon · 10 Dec 1978

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The world's great problems all have technical and human content that cannot be separated

Their wordsThe decisions to take these steps were acknowledgements that all the great problems that face our world today have both technical and human content – the one intermingled inseparably with the other.

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The world's great problems all have technical and human content that cannot be separated

Their wordsThe decisions to take these steps were acknowledgements that all the great problems that face our world today have both technical and human content – the one intermingled inseparably with the other.
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Solving problems like hunger, pollution and poverty requires deeper knowledge of both nature's laws and human behaviour

Their wordsTo deal with these problems – of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty – we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of Nature’s laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
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The powers of the human mind, though finite, should be used to seek a more humane world

Their wordsOn this occasion we renew our resolution to use all the powers of the human mind, finite though they be, to search forward to a more humane world.

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