Concepts Quote by Stanley B. Prusiner

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

“Firstly, it meant that the issue between competing paradigms could not be resolved by simply appealing to ‘the data’ or ‘the facts’, for what…

— Samir Okasha

“No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it’s lying there…

— Christopher Moore

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as…

— John Charles Polanyi

Data is not intelligence.

— William Binney

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

— Phil Zuckerman

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

— Seth Lloyd

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

— Clifford Stoll

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

— Justus von Liebig

“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