Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson Download Open image ““where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.”” — Neil deGrasse Tyson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
“It is often true that groundbreaking discoveries are made from poor data at the leading edge” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Ideas for data products tend to start simple and become complex; if they start complex, they become impossible.” — Dj Patil Copy Share Image
“Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.” — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
“Big data makes us feel as though we can and should know everything there is to know on earth. But this is a fool’s… — Christian Madsbjerg Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image