Quotes by Paul Samuelson

"Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them."

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"Good questions outrank easy answers."

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"Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago."

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"Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs."

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