We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.

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