Adopting Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

— Alexis Carrel

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting…

— Charles Babbage

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

— Jim Peebles

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

— James Madison

Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject…

— Ian Stevenson

“Never in the history of the world have we had easier access to more information - some of it true, some of it false,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

— Brian Greene

“...in a universe where both information and misinformation are constantly suspect, reviewed and drifing as they must be (constantly) by and between the two,…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Without clues, we search in the wrong directions. Without evidence, a theory is not reliable.”

— Carlo Rovelli

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief