“The opportunity passes if the ready alternative is not available.”
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 8, The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams, p. 170
“The opportunity passes if the ready alternative is not available.”
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 8, The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams, p. 170
Letter to Ezra Pound (21 December 1948)
1940s
From a book review in The New York Times (9 May 1976) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F13FC345E157493CBA9178ED85F428785F9#, also quoted in The American Mathematical Monthly (December 1994)
Context: Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals — the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
This was true not alone of the electrical writings but also in other fields of experimental enquiry. ...[The Opticks] would allow the reader to roam, with great Newton as his guide, through the major unresolved problems of science and even the relation of the whole world of nature to Him who had created it. ...in the Opticks Newton did not adopt the motto... —Hypotheses non fingo; I frame no hypotheses—but, so to speak, let himself go, allowing his imagination full reign and by far exceeding the bounds of experimental evidence.
I. Bernard Cohen, Preface to Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton (1952)
In Zeenews, "William Dalrymple's book on first Anglo-Afghan war out in December"
Chimeras of Experience: A Conversation with Jonah Lehrer (2009)
Source: Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008), Ch. 3 (p. 51)