Premature Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

— Carl Sagan

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would…

— Learned Hand

“THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”

— Isaac Asimov

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

You know my methods. Apply them.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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— Steven Magee

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised?…

— Sachin Tendulkar

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be…

— Isaac Asimov

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,…

— Steven Pinker