There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.


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One should have a wide variety of assets in one's portfolio. And oil, by the way, is a particula...
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I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect specie...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest ra...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Poli...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technolo...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from the...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things o...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.'...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book a...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligibl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino ...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge rese...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
ROBERT J. FLAHERTY
Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some peo...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, t...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
We need someone who has the experience - and the demeanor - to be the president of the United States...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake an...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. K...
ROBERT J. FUREY
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
ROBERT J. SAWYER
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Tolerate, change, or be grateful.
J. ROBERT MOSKIN
In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Exp...
ROBERT J. FISHER
By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction m...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA
Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that l...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
My personal mission statement is to combine the intimately human and the grandly cosmic. I like to t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you ca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, y...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... Peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provide...
ROBERT J. SHILLER
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made...
ROBERT J. SAWYER
The power of the understatement is enormous.
ROBERT J. RINGER
Always let people be surprised that you gave them more than you promised, faster than you promised, ...
ROBERT J. RINGER
What gives life itself such a high value is death.
ROBERT J. RINGER
When it comes to negotiating diplomacy a pair of deuces beats hostility and four aces every time.
ROBERT J. RINGER
Better to have someone unhappy about your refusal to commit than angry with your failure to execute.
ROBERT J. RINGER
The hardest way to impress people is to try to impress people.
ROBERT J. RINGER
To the degree you overexpose yourself, you become an inflated commodity, which in turn causes a deva...
ROBERT J. RINGER
It's all about what you do every day, be remarkable!
ROBERT J BANACH
I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the ...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY
One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition t...
ROBERT J. SAWYER