The science [of economics] hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
Source: A Modern Utopia, ch. 5, sct. 2 (1905;
-- H G Wells, (Sep 21 1866-1946), English writer; He in renown for his science-fiction and imaginative social philosophy, e.g., Time Machine, 1895.