Arguing Quote by 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

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to…

— Anonymous

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Francis Crick

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

— David Douglass

The theory must not contradict empirical facts,

— Albert Einstein

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

— Richard Thaler

Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

— Stephen Harper

“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

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

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.

— Austan Goolsbee