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Maurice Allais
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“La soumission aux données de l'expérience est la règle d'or qui domine toute discipline scientifique.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech on being awarded the Academician sword, address to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (19 October 1993)
“Any author who uses mathematics should always express in ordinary language the meaning of the assumptions he admits, as well as the significance of the results obtained. The more abstract his theory, the more imperative this obligation. In fact, mathematics are and can only be a tool to explore reality. In this exploration, mathematics do not constitute an end in itself, they are and can only be a means.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La formation scientifique, Une communication du Prix Nobel d’économie, Maurice Allais, address to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (1997)
“Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 506 ISBN 2-908735-09-1
“A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 591
“Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 640
“In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.”
Maurice Allais (1911–2010) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Crise mondiale d’aujourd’hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires (1999), p. 74 ISBN 2-908735-11-3