“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.” LongDoeScienceTechnologyWorryTheoryToolsStatisticsMachinery Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.” WorldTwoWarEconomicTheoryRevolutionResearchResourcesFactorsMathematicalInevitableWar Of The WorldsLogicalStatisticsWorld War IiWorld War IRenaissanceOverdueMitMacroEconomic Theory Author:Paul Samuelson
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.” EnoughFeelingsChanceMy OwnCrazyTheoryMadnessStatisticsDividesQuantum Mechanics Author:Niels Bohr