Best 5 quotes of Robert Krulwich on MyQuotes

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

If you can… fall in love, with the work, with people you work with, with your dreams and their dreams. Whatever it was that got you to this school, don’t let it go. Whatever kept you here, don’t let that go. Believe in your friends. Believe that what you and your friends have to say… that the way you’re saying it — is something new in the world.

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.

to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.