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• Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

  Ronald Fisher

  Issues, Tasks, Body

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• Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

  Judith Curry

  Support, Climate, Research

  "Overlooked evidence - global warming may proceed faster than expected" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

  John Henry Holland

  Principles, Looking Forward, Theory

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Years, Would Be

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

  Maurice Allais

  Real, Judging, Assumption

  "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 591), 1997.

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• figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

  Mabel Seeley

  Secret, Figures, Clear

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• Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data.

  Timothy Gowers

  Numbers, Determined, Prime

  Timothy Gowers (2002). “Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.121, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul...and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Buddhist, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Principles, Unyielding

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Scientist

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surveys show that surveys never lie.

  Natalie Angier

  Lying, Surveys, Never Lie

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

  Karl Marx

  Junk, Empty, Bigs

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• The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Goal, Desire

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• The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

  Stacy Aumonier

  People, Trouble, Sufficient

  Stacy Aumonier (1935). “Ups and downs: stories”

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• There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Lying, Faces, Your Face

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

  John Brunner

  Impact, Truth Is, Reason

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding ones subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism - from the most stylistically objective to the most brazenly opinionated - has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Real, Thinking, Facts

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• And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Years, Lasts

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• The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

  Eric Schmidt

  Information, Way, Failing

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• The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Slumps, Aftermath

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• I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

  Chapman Cohen

  Mind, Atheism, World

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• The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

  Emo Philips

  Love You, Home, Sleep

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People who have various kinds of politics for whom it is congenial for their apriority politics to say yes, things are getting much worse. They are opposed by people who also have a priori politics saying that this is the best of all possible worlds, capitalism is the greatest thing since sliced bread and you're just alarmists and so on and they can massage the data so it fits them.

  Richard Lewontin

  People, World, Bread

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Answers, Absence, Scientist

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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