Collections Quote by Thomas Kuhn

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if…

— Noam Chomsky

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by…

— Albert Einstein

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

— Clifford Geertz

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

— Phillip Johnson-Laird

“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.…

— James Gleick

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

— Bertrand Russell

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

— Robert J. Shiller

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose.…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

“and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only…

— Albert Einstein

I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.

— Austan Goolsbee

“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

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

— Geoffrey West