Data Quote by Anonymous

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

— Francis Collins

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting…

— Dean Ornish

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

— Peter Medawar

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

— Robert MacArthur

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases…

— Richard Lewontin

“It also makes clear why an observational study needs to collect lots of ancillary information about each participant so that the kind of balancing…

— Howard Wainer

Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true.

— Elliott Sober

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with…

— W. Edwards Deming

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of…

— R. D. Laing

“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can use it…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year,…

— Richard Leakey