The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

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

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

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

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

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?