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I could not resist this story from THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS by Robert 
Heilbroner. To quote: 
 
Keynes was having dinner with Max Planck, the mathematical genius who was 
responsible for the development of quantum mechanics, one of the more 
bewildering achievements of the human mind. Planck turned to Keynes and 
told him that he had once considered going into economics himself. But he 
decided against it - it was too hard. Keynes repeated this story with 
relish to a friend back at Cambridge. "Why, that's odd," said the friend. 
"Bertrand Russell was telling me just the other day that he'd also thought 
about going into economics. But he decided it was too easy." 
 
Sumitra Shah 
 
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