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10 December 1978

Herbert A. SimonKorrents 10 Dec 1978

From one piece Herbert A. Simon, Nobel Banquet speech (10 December 1978) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The powers of the human mind, though finite, should be used to seek a more humane world

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On 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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Solving problems like hunger, pollution and poverty requires deeper knowledge of both nature's laws and human behaviour

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

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The 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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