DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.