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.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

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.

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.

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