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Evan Esar
(1899 - 1995)
American humorist and writer.
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Science Quotes by Evan Esar (7 quotes)
Mathematician: A mathemagician.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 373.
Mathematician: A scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 372-373.
Mathematics: A science that cannot explain what happens to a man if his wife is his better half and he marries twice.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 373.
Meteor: A shooting star that falls by not landing anywhere.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 378.
Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie but admits that, under analysis some of them won’t stand up either.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 568.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 569.
Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
— Evan Esar
In Esar’s Comic Dictionary (1943, 4th ed. 1983), 568.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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