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Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. — Ronald Coase
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the… — Unknown Author
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into… — Ronald Coase
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other… — Ludwig von Mises
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. — Robert Heilbroner
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… — Charles Darwin
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved — Charles Darwin
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died — Daniel Dennett
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius… — Daniel Dennett
Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind — Richard Dawkins
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker
Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution. — Karl Popper
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political… — Douglass North
It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed — Charles Darwin
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they… — Richard Dawkins
The perennial gale of creative destruction — Joseph A. Schumpeter
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope… — John Stuart Mill
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over… — Douglass North

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