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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It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

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。

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

我的第一个学位比第二个学位早了好几年。我本想成为一名物理学家,但我的微积分不及格。

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

经济学家的猜测可能和其他人一样好。

For economist the real world is often a special case.

对经济学家来说,现实世界往往是一个特例。