Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

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

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.

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

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.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

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