Data Quote by Howard Wainer

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or…

— Anonymous

In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,…

— William Whewell

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are…

— Edmund Pellegrino

“Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete…

— Thomas Gilovich

“The human brain has a deceptive habit of filling in missing information and ignoring new information that doesn’t fit the expectation.”

— David L. Hough

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

— Pascual Jordan

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under…

— Ronald Fisher

When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so…

— Ernest Sosa

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.”

— Nina Teicholz

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb