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=== 2009 === {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6650343788 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=I think many scientists would have found '''Paul Samuelson''' a formidable fellow scientist, technically knowledgable far beyond economics. I did. |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6649381477 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=I should say that the idea that Gauge Theory would bring field theory to economics was any easy sell to '''Samuelson'''. The details never took. |timestamp=2:59 AM · Dec 14, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6650075823 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content="One must not expect to be able to make the naive measurements that untutored common sense always longs for." -'''P. Samuelson''' (w/ Swamy) 1974 |timestamp=3:23 AM · Dec 14, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6650139847 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content="[W]e must not be bemused by the undoubted elegances...of the homothetic theory. Nor should we shoot the honest theorist." -'''Samuelson'''&Swamy |timestamp=3:25 AM · Dec 14, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6650182763 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content='''Paul Samuelson''' told me these lines of his would ward off any detractors who did not understand what Lie groups and gauge theory could solve. |timestamp=3:27 AM · Dec 14, 2009 }} |timestamp=3:32 AM · Dec 14, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6710331511 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content="Some day when I pass through St Peter’s Gates I do think I have 1/2 a cigar still coming to me" -'''P Samuelson''' now looking for J von Neumann |thread= {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6710223799 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=“Would you bet a cigar on that?” -John Von Neumann cowing '''Paul Samuelson''' |timestamp=10:38 PM · Dec 15, 2009 }} |timestamp=10:42 PM · Dec 15, 2009 }} {{Tweet |image=Eric profile picture.jpg |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/6933565112 |name=Eric Weinstein |usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein |username=EricRWeinstein |content=.@riemannzeta: '''Samuelson's''' economics is to Newtonian physics what gauge theoretic economics is to Einstein/Yang-Mills http://bit.ly/PSINAE |timestamp=4:27 PM · Dec 22, 2009 }}
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