Steven E. Landsburg Quotes

#1. Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.

Steven E. Landsburg

#2. Given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution ...

Steven E. Landsburg

#3. A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.

Steven E. Landsburg

#4. Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.

Steven E. Landsburg

#5. If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of seltzer down someone's pants. But if you win an Olympic gold medal, the world will not have one more Olympic gold medalist. It will just have you instead of someone else.

Steven E. Landsburg

#6. [Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Steven E. Landsburg