Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.