The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. (Milton Friedman)

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

Milton Friedman

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