Humor Quote by Graham Parke

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

“Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to…

— Tracie McMillan

We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

It's like comparing apples and oranges; they're both delicious.

— Cyd Charisse

“I'm not one of those fruitarians who advise people to make fruit an arbitrary percentage of their diet and then the rest, greens, nuts…

— Mango Wodzak

“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in…

— Kevin Guilfoile

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

— Paul Ormerod

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

— Craig Sheffer