Credit Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

— James D. Watson

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

— Bill Watterson

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

— Leonard Susskind

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

— Lee Smolin

Surprises can be compelling.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

— Werner Herzog

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

— Daniel Kahneman

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

— John Herschel

The President continues to surprise people, so I am not surprised to be surprised.

— Dick Cheney

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

— Lisa Randall

The best surprise is no surprise.

— Kemmons Wilson

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

— David Douglass