Kenneth Boulding Quote

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.


Boulding (1986) "Proceedings of the 7th Friends Association for Higher Education Conference, Malone College, 1986" p. 4, quoted in Debora Hammond, The Science of Synthesis, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, 2003.


The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse...

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse...

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse...

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse...