George Stigler

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

— George Stigler

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

— George Stigler

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war…

— George Stigler

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

— George Stigler

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

— George Stigler

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later…

— George Stigler

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the…

— George Stigler

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

— George Stigler

In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

— George Stigler

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

— George Stigler

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year…

— George Stigler

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

— George Stigler

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

— George Stigler

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals…

— George Stigler

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional…

— George Stigler

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

— George Stigler

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade…

— George Stigler

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

— George Stigler

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and…

— George Stigler

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

— George Stigler

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

— George Stigler

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even…

— George Stigler

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,…

— George Stigler

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

— George Stigler