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There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Robert Heinlein

Someone once said about partisan analysts that they use economic data the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination. Or as Disraeli put it, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Paul Krugman

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

A. Whitehead

How to do research

Everything has been thought before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Goethe