The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

I have been....moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Rome-that they should cover their faces or burst into laugher when they met on the street.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.