Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

— Seth Godin

“We tend to shy away from data that challenges our assumptions, that erodes our preconceptions. Getting rid of our wrong ideas is a painful…

— Charles Seife

“Making data tell its story isn’t just a matter of presenting results; it involves making connections, then going back to other data sources to…

— O'Reilly Radar Team

“The modern world is drowning in information. We have more data than we can possibly use regarding nearly every picayune matter of society, economics,…

— Jeffrey A. Lockwood

“I have a disdain,” he says, “for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use, and I’m…

— Norman Doidge

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”

— Mike A. Lancaster

“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.”

— Tom Boellstorff

“People do not come to the Internet so that their bad information can be corrected or their cherished theories disproven. Rather, they ask the…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until…

— David Deutsch

“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together…

— Nathan Hill

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman