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Science Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside…
- All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
- All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
- Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
- Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
- The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
- The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
- 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,…
- The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
- Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov