My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

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

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

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

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.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

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