A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.