I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

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

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest under conditions of competition.

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