Science Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

13 Science quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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Hayek’s thirteen brief remarks weave together market theory and scientific reasoning, offering a concise look at his belief in spontaneous order and the limits of planning.

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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can…

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are…

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If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are…

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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our…

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Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow…

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The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where…

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Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a…

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The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential…

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The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists…

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Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the…

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The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present…

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Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects…

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The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there…

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By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point…

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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

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Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

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We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic…

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The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most…

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