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Maurice Allais

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Too manytheorists have a tendency to ignorefacts that contradict theirconvictions.

Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May19119 October2010) was a French physicist andeconomist, and the 1988 laureate of theNobel 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 ofgravitation,special relativity andelectromagnetism, and discovered theAllais effect.

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Atheory is only asgood as itsassumptions. If thepremises arefalse, the theory has no realscientificvalue. The only scientific criterion forjudging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with thedata ofexperience.
  • La soumission aux données de l'expérience est la règle d'or qui domine toute discipline scientifique.
    • Submission to the experimentaldata is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.
      • Speech on being awarded the Academician sword, address to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (19 October 1993)
  • Any author who usesmathematics 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.
  • 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 befields,an associated fluid,a probability fluid,a pilot fluid,a quantum fluid, etc.
    • L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 506ISBN 2-908735-09-1
  • Atheory 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.
    • L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience (1997), p. 591
  • Too manytheorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
    • 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 ofmoney creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
    • La Crise mondiale d’aujourd’hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires (1999), p. 74ISBN 2-908735-11-3

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