A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

  • -- George Stigler 斯蒂格勒

一位瑞典物理学家除非出国,否则不能与五十个人讨论他的工作。一位瑞典经济学家可以从他成千上万的同胞那里得到用本国语言表述的意见和指示。

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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

物理学变得如此复杂,以至于培养一个物理学家需要的时间越来越长。事实上,要把一个物理学家培养到能够理解物理问题本质的程度需要很长时间,以至于他已经老得无法解决这些问题了。

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

我认为,无论你是右派还是左派,无论是经济学家还是政策制定者,我所认识的每一位严肃的分析师都同意,在某个时候,你必须处理福利问题。

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

我相信,作为一名医学物理学家,我对社会的贡献要大得多。

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

教一只鹦鹉“供给和需求”这两个术语,你就有了一位经济学家。