Doe Quote by Richard P. Feynman

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

— David Douglass

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin…

— David Brin

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that…

— James Surowiecki

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have…

— Antonio Tabucchi

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming…

— Charles Darwin

I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.

— Bob Ehrlich

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

— Gareth Barry

People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.

— Phil Jones

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith