Data Quote by Walter A. Shewhart

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

— Roger Lewin

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

— Warren Buffett

“Past Data should not be the basis of Present Truth. Data from a prior time or experience should always and only be the basis…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

— Richard Wright

We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.

— George Monbiot

“Amending the ‘data’, or rejecting some as erroneous, is a frequent concomitant of scientific discovery, and the crucial ‘data’ cannot even be obtained until…

— David Deutsch

“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

There is the finest line between data and evidence.

— Randall Dale Adams

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

— Benjamin Franklin

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought…

— William Whewell

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

— Kate Crawford