Economist Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have seen that…

— Robert J. Shiller

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson

Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite…

— Leonard Susskind

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you…

— Paul Krugman

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell…

— Eric Hobsbawm

The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as 'physicists,' yet they know next to nothing about Physics.

— Bill Gaede

Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade…

— Charlie Munger

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

— Brian Greene

“Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good…

— Walter Isaacson