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Ethical judgments can be [should be] included in the scope of science

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A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another.

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To know that we are measuring real change we need to have a strong theoretical base.

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The problem of systems improvement is the problem of the 'ethics of the whole system'.

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The systems approach goes on to discovering that every world-view is terribly restricted.

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Operations research '(OR) is the securing of improvement in social systems by means of scientific method

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If the story of my early years with Russ sound like they were years of battle, then the sound is correct.

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When one is considering systems it's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

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Enemies are hostile, out to stop you, to eliminate you and your ideas; they are also to be loved, even as yourself.

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We are always obliged to think about the larger system. If we fail to do this, then our thinking becomes fallacious.

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This text is oriented toward human organizations since this has been the emphasis in the practice of O. R. in business and industry.

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The complete analysis of the methods of scientific inference shows that the theory of inference in science demands the use of ethical judgments

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What seems to emerge is not a moral reprimand of the management scientist, but rather a moral problem of the profession, a wicked moral problem.

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Design, properly viewed, is an enormous liberation of the intellectual spirit, for it challenges this spirit to an unbounded speculation about possibilities.

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The comprehensiveness of OR's aim is an example of a 'systems' approach, since 'system' implies an interconnected complex of functionally related components.

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This text grew from the lecture material for the "Short Course in Operations Research" which has been offered annually (since 1952) by Case Institute of Technology.

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How can we design improvement in large systems without understanding the whole system, and if the answer is that we cannot, how is it possible to understand the whole system?

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If the chance of error alone were the sole basis for evaluating methods of inference, we would never reach a decision, but would merely keep increasing the sample size indefinitely.

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Inquiry is the creation of knowledge or understanding; it is the reaching out of a human being beyond himself to a perception of what he may be or could be, or what the world could be or ought to be.

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