Herbert A. Simon

7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• The social sciences need the rigour and mathematical foundations that made the hard sciences successful (opens korrents.com)

  “The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the “hard” sciences so brilliantly successful.”

  around 1978

• The right way to study human problem-solving is to simulate it with computer programs (opens korrents.com)

  “About 1954, he and I conceived the idea that the right way to study problem-solving was to simulate it with computer programs.”

  around 1978

• Schools give little hint until late that human behaviour can be studied scientifically (opens korrents.com)

  “The idea that human behavior may be studied scientifically is never hinted until much later in the educational process – it was certainly not conveyed by history or “civics” courses as they were then taught.”

  around 1978