Quotes About Data

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

I think science is real.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

A Data Scientists strength lies solely in their tenacity.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with.

the notion that we know all there is to know about people and their needs and that all these data are pinned down exactly and fully explained by the market, the state, sociological surveys, ratings, and everything else that turns people into the Global Anonymous.

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2

We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

Web traffic figures for the BBC news website:

More data flows into the building in a single day than mankind as a whole would have generated in the twenty-three centuries between the death of Socrates and the invention of the telephone.