Defined Quote by Peter Thiel

Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

— Herbert Turnbull

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

— Terence Tao

Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

— Tobias Dantzig

“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

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

— Snoop Dogg

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market,…

— David Rolf

Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

— Isaac Asimov

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable…

— James R Newman

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons

I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

— P. J. O'Rourke