Bones Quote by John Maynard Keynes

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.

— Piero Sraffa

The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the…

— Celia Green

“Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.”

— Samir Okasha

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

— Lisa Randall

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

— Miyamoto Musashi

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

— Stanislaw Ulam

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone…

— Milton Friedman

“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

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…

— Paul Dirac