Thomas Sowell Quotes
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
Quotes to Explore
-
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
-
Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
-
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
-
A woman can never have enough shoes.
-
I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
-
I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
-
When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
-
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
-
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
-
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
-
There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
-
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
-
Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
-
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
-
I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
-
Science repulses the indefinite.
-
I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
-
The more you learn about the science of boxing, the more appreciation you have for man's ability to think and perform in violent situations, and that's what interests me in film.
-
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
-
Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid.
-
I never thought I was a very good manager.
-
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
-
We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
-
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
