Gathering Data Quotes

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

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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  Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Technology

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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• An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

  John Tukey

  Science, Data, Answers

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Data

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

  John Dewey

  Art, Painting, Senses

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.80, SIU Press

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

  Robert Pozen

  Data, People, Together

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• The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

  Richard Restak

  Essence, Brain, Function

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• .....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

  Eric Jensen

  Brain, Doe, Research

  Eric Jensen (1995). “Brain-based Learning & Teaching”, Brain Store Incorporated

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• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Knowing, Principles, Participation

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Artist, Data, Gathering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

  John Dewey

  Roots, Mind, Balance

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.280, University of Illinois Press

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• Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

  Robert Kegan

  Find Me, Senses

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• Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

  Arundhati Roy

  Data, Gathering, World

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