"Adam Smith's enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things." Robert L. Heilbroner commenting on An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations-- We are no Adam Smith, but we are putting forth "an effort to see to the bottom of things."
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In a way I envy that he could at least know if he was succeeding or failing from the sound of the bucket. I worry that if I publish a paper I'll think its crap and that if I don't publish papers that I will be failing in a different way.
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