Data Quote by Anonymous

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until…

— David Deutsch

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

— Baruch Spinoza

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there…

— Christopher Moore

No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there…

— Christopher Moore

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

— Phil Zuckerman

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton