C. West Churchman Quotes

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Scientists whose work has no clear, practical implications would want to make their decisions considering such things as:
the relative worth of (1) more observations, (2) greater scope of his conceptual model, (3) simplicity, (4) precision of language, (5) accuracy of the probability assignment.

C. West Churchman
C. West Churchman exposed the indifferentist position of some researchers — planners belonging to this school in the following terms:
And if our clients blow up the world, land us in starvation or totalitarianism, that is too bad, but we remained pure in heart to the last, didn't we?

C. West Churchman