Data Quotes - Page 38

• The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.

  Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  Science, Different, Shells

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• While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal when it shall have reduced ultimate laws to one or two, the necessity of which lies outside the sphere of our cognition. These ultimate laws-in the domain of physical science at least-will be the dynamical laws of the relations of matter to number, space, and time. The ultimate data will be number, matter, space, and time themselves. When these relations shall be known, all physical phenomena will be a branch of pure mathematics.

  William Mitchinson Hicks

  Lying, Science, Discovery

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• Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.

  David Pilbeam

  Dark, Past, Views

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• Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Fancy, Fossils

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• If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Discipline, People

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)

  Steve Wozniak

  Loyalty, Commitment, Talking

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• Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Spiritual, Recovery, Intellectual

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• When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

  Robert Cailliau

  Recovery, Humanity, Faces

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• The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Character, Facts

  Andrea Moro, Noam Chomsky, Ivano Caponigro, Daniel B. Kane (2015). “The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages”, p.37, MIT Press

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• There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Succeed, Helping, Available

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• If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Over You, Looks, Action

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• I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".

  Ronald Coase

  Hate, People, Massage

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• Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.

  Ronald Coase

  Voice, Giving, Trying

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• This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

  John Tukey

  Boring, My Favorite, Flats

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• Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

  John Tukey

  Meaningful, Evil, Needs

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• I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

  Phil Jones

  Couple, People, Energy

  "Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'" by John R. Lott, www.foxnews.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

  Keith Briffa

  Nice, Simple, Reality

  "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Strong, Long, Historical

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

  Benjamin Wittes

  Rights, Bills, Privacy

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• The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects.

  Steve McIntyre

  Past, Errors, Quality

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• I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.

  Scott Nicholson

  Cleaning, Kind, Masters

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• How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task of modeling climate is vast, because of the estimates that have to be made and the rubbery quality of much of the data.

  Don Aitkin

  Quality, Climate, Tasks

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• Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.

  Don Aitkin

  Media, People, Environmental

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• We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed

  Fatih Birol

  Years, Track, Energy

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