"The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it."

"Intermediate between mathematics, statistics, and economics, we find a new discipline which, for lack of a better name, may be called econometrics. Econometrics has as its aim to subject abstract laws…"

"There ... a list of five tests which any body of doctrine which aspires to the name of economic theory must be able to meet:"

"...it was Darwin’s chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process…"

"aking to the AI laboratory... requires the theory not merely to be plausible, but... requires it to be fit for implementation, and delivers it to the... merciless battle of testing."