Society...Institutions...SCIENCES
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1083 H
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” — Mark Twain
SCIENCES, Dishonesty
1084 A
“The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn’t contain a single idea.” — Mortimer Jerome Adler
SCIENCES, Knowledge, Originality
1085
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.” — Henry Brooks Adams
SCIENCES, Ignorance, Knowledge
1086
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Aldous Huxley
SCIENCES, Ignorance, Hate, Honesty
1087
“There is no need of words; believe facts.” — Ovid
SCIENCES, Honesty, Arts
1088
“Facts speak louder than statistics.” — Mr. Justice Streatfield
SCIENCES, Communication
1089 HA
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination.” — Andrew Lang
SCIENCES, Judgment
1090 H
“Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.” — Gregg Easterbrook
SCIENCES, Dishonesty
1091 CH
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
— Mark Twain
SCIENCES, Dishonesty
1092 H
“A statistician is one who collects data and draws confusions.”
— Hyman Maxwell Berston
SCIENCES, Judgment
1093 H
“Statistician - A man who can go directly from an unwarranted assumption to a preconceived
conclusion.” — Chauncey Kent Wright
SCIENCES, Decision Making, Judgment
1094
“Round numbers are always false.” — Samuel Johnson
SCIENCES, Dishonesty
1095 HA
“In the field of marketing and advertising, statistics are like bikinis; they reveal a good deal that
is both interesting and instructive, but they usually conceal what is really vital.” — Harry Henry
SCIENCES, Competition
1096
“Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.”
— Ilka Chase
SCIENCES, Speeches
1097 C
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin
SCIENCES, War & Peace, Perception
1098 H
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” — Ezra Solomon
SCIENCES, Vision
1099 H
“An economist’s guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else’s.”
— Will Rogers
SCIENCES, Judgment, Vision
1100 P
“Research is to see what everybody has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.” — Albert Von Szent-Gyorgyi
SCIENCES, Originality, Perception
1101 P
“If you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism. If you copy from two, it’s research.” — Wilson Mizner
SCIENCES, Dishonesty, Originality, Arts
1102
“A scientist is a man who would rather count than guess.” — Sam (Leonard Louis) Levinson
SCIENCES, Judgment
1103 C
“Scientists should be on tap but not on top.” — Sir Winston Churchill
SCIENCES, Authority
1104
“The man of science does not discover in order to know; he wants to know in order to discover.” — Alfred North Whitehead
SCIENCES, Knowledge
1105
“In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
— William Osler
SCIENCES, Fame, Reward, Originality
1106
“One of the most pernicious falsehoods ever to be almost universally accepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth.” — Richard H. Bube
SCIENCES, Faith, Honesty
1107 A
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” — Albert Einstein
SCIENCES, God
SCIENCES Cross-References
Wealth—44, 54 • Errors—313-314 •
Ignorance—516-517 • Knowledge—559 • Wisdom—576 •
Perception—618-619 • Chance—658 • Judgment—671-673, 677 •
Decision-Making—696 • Hate—854 • Business—1048 •
Arts—1069 • Competition—1171, 1175, 1192 • Government—1256 •
War & Peace—1327 • Bores—1417 • Change—1450 •
Health & Fitness—1488
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