“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
“Market failure.”
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.
When you encounter what seems inexplicable, check that it exists.
I fought the Zeitgeist and the Zeitgeist won.
To have opinions is a private vice; to air them is a public nuisance.
All samples are convenient, and thus no samples are random.
Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.
Genuine truth-seekers make unfashionable errors.
The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.