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Too many theorists 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 - Editions Clément Juglar, Paris - 1997.


Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.

Speech when he was awarded the Academician sword, address to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques - October 19, 1993.


In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money 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 - Editions Clément Juglar, Paris - 1999


A theory 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 - Editions Clément Juglar, Paris - 1997.