Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
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Eric Maskin
These are some quotes by American author Eric Maskin Economist, who was born on December 12, 1950.
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