Herbert A. Simon on Science
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Herbert A. Simon, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Herbert A. Simon, entry #225547: "We need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process."
Attributed to Herbert A. Simon, entry #27989: "Before a science can develop principles, it must possess concepts. Before a law of gravitation could be formulated, it was necessary to have the notions of “acceleration” and “wei…"
5 Quotes by Herbert A. Simon on Science
"We need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process."
"Before a science can develop principles, it must possess concepts. Before a law of gravitation could be formulated, it was necessary to have the notions of “acceleration” and “weight."
"Most of the propositions that make up the body of administrative theory today share, unfortunately, this defect of proverbs. For almost every principle one can find an equally plausible and acceptable contradictory principle."
"The first task of administrative theory is to develop a set of concepts that will permit the description, in terms relevant to the theory, of administrative situations. These concepts, to be scientifically useful, must be operational; that is, their meanings must correspond to empirically observable facts or situations."
"In Administrative Behavior, bounded rationality is largely characterized as a residual category — rationality is bounded when it falls short of omniscience. And the failures of omniscience are largely failures of knowing all the alternatives, uncertainty about relevant exogenous events, and inability to calculate consequences. There was needed a more positive and formal characterization of the mechanisms of choice under conditions of bounded rationality... Two concepts are central to the characterization: search and satisficing."