“A temporary evolution of ignorance, a period when our insistence on looking in certain directions leaves us unable to see what is right under our noses, may be the price of progress, an inevitable part of what happens when we try to make sense of the world's complexity.”

—  Paul Krugman

Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (1995), Ch. 3. Models and Metaphors

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