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

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

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

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.

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.