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.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

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

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

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.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.