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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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1960
(age 64)
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