Quote by 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

“Theories without data are like daydreams.”

— Jonathan Rottenberg

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Austan Goolsbee

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

— Mary Leakey

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

— George Santayana

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

Theory is good; but it doesn't prevent things from existing.

— Jean-Martin Charcot

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

— Henry Mintzberg

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