Quotes About Data

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.