Economist Quote by 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 as a…

— 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 times. I…

— George Stigler

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

— 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 at Northwestern University.

— George Stigler

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

— George Stigler