Sowell Science Quotes & Sayings

You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight. — Wladimir Klitschko

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

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. — 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 the realm of pure science. — Thomas Sowell

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster. — Thomas Sowell

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. — Thomas Sowell

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

It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says. — Robert M. Pirsig

Your ability to solve complex problems may make you overthink simple problems, going for the convoluted answer and overlooking the simple, more obvious solution. — Anonymous

It was painted by someone who knew how to prime a canvas, so he'd had some training, but it is quite workaday and not well lighted. The main thing is that if it is Shakespeare, it is the only portrait known that might have been done from life, so this would be what William Shakespeare really looked like - if it is William Shakespeare. — Bill Bryson

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down. — Richard Stallman

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that. — Louis C.K.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell

Country is the pace where your friends are. — Emile Augier

Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness ... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them ... but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim. — Steve Maraboli

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms. — Thomas Sowell

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7. — Bob Cousy

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. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people. — Thomas Sowell

The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom. — John Keegan

Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest. — Edmund Spenser

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities. — Thomas Sowell