“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.”

Context: It seems impossible to believe that Life, so rare a fruit of the universe, intelligent Life, conscious Life, to which the long course of evolution has been so manifestly leading up all through the long ages, should have no better destiny than a final and hopeless extinction; that this Earth and all the efforts and aspirations of the long generations of men should have no worthier end than to swing, throughout the eternal ages, an empty, frozen heap of dust, circling round the extinct cinder that was once its Sun. If we look backward, we seem to discern clear signs of progress; if we look forward, we discern nothing but the veil. Science is but organized experience, and experience of the future we have none.

Source: The Riverworld series, The Magic Labyrinth (1980), Ch. 19
Context: According to Burton, the Ethical who talked to him did not agree with his fellows. Apparently, there was dissension even among those beings who we could account as gods. Dispute or discord in Olympus, if I may draw such a parallel. Though I do not think that the so-called Ethicals are gods, angels, or demons. They are human beings like us but advanced to a higher ethical plane. What their disagreement is, I frankly do not know. Perhaps it is about the means used to achieve a goal.

Source: Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity (2015), p. 75

"The economic naturalist writing assignment", Journal of Economic Education (2006)

Source: 1970s, Economics As a Science, 1970, p. 117

Is Economics All There Is?, July 18, 2003

Source: Meditations

The Plan of Delano (1965)

Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (17 January 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103926
Leader of the Opposition