Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
