Wassily Leontief quotes
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“Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.”
-- Wassily LeontiefSource : Wassily Leontief (1966). “Essays in Economics: Theories, Theorizing, Facts, and Policies”, p.10, Transaction Publishers
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“The human worker will go the way of the horse.”
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“We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.”
-- Wassily Leontief
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“I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.”
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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
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“Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.”
Source : "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 348), 1941.
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“The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!”
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