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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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