Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

Temporality and the transformation of energy are two very important aspects in my work.

Each material is only what we make it.

Energy is the master resource, because energy enables us to convert one material into another. As natural scientists continue to learn more about the transformation of materials from one form to another with the aid of energy, energy will be even more important.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

To make progress we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies.

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.

History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time. History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.

Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.