Economic Quote by Paul Samuelson

I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so…

— Richard P. Feynman

I had considered MIT a place where brilliant people came.

— Alan Guth

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research…

— Anonymous

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly…

— Herbert Simon

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

— Robert B. Parker

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

— Susan Hockfield

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was…

— Robert B. Laughlin

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that…

— Simon Newcomb

Getting an Education from MIT is like taking a drink from a Fire Hose.

— Anonymous

“when I arrived at Stanford in 1985, economics, not computer science, was the most popular major. To most people on campus, the tech sector…

— Peter Thiel

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee