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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

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During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. ↗

— Nate Silver

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Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

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In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' ↗

— John Tuley

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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

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