Thomas Sowell Quotes About Science
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
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All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
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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.
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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
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