Thomas Sowell Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

  Thomas Sowell

  Smart, Science, Thinking

• All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Statistics, Term

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Science, Law

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Failure, Science

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Differences, Different

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.266, Encounter Books

• Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Statistics, Disaster

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Years, Variables

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Opposites, Different

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Opposites, Experts

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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