It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect.

They were on their way to Canaan

I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.