Selective Quote by Roxane Gay

“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“while creating a debate is easy, creating a rigorous debate requires a deliberate approach.”

— Liz Wiseman

“Because arguments require an expenditure of time and energy, we need to consider what is worth arguing about and what is not.”

— Jeanne Segal

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.”

— John Corvino

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

— Andre Maurois

“It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.”

— St. Therese of Lisieux

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

— Tom Boellstorff

“I have seen people who agree on the major issues waste hours arguing over details.”

— Ray Dalio

“Data puts a stamp on your assumptions when they are right.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

“where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in…

— Ellie Rose McKee