Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. - Maurice Allais

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Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

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About Maurice Allais

Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 1911 – 9 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, and the 1988 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources". Besides his career in economics, Maurice Allais performed experiments between 1952 and 1960 in the field of gravitation, special relativity and electromagnetism, and discovered the Allais effect.

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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.

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