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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
data expect fed feed hands home sales
The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes. Tony Crescenzi
data ideas waiting
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor. Carl Sagan
data easy insufficient
With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong. Carl Sagan
data body celestial-bodies
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. Antoine Lavoisier
data heavy holding people week
We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit. James Niosi
data discussing engineers hard night options ourselves perform
We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think. Bob McMurray
data event recorder
We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail. Mark Rosenker
data exception released surprised today
With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside. David Rosenberg
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) Carl Sagan
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors. Carl Sagan
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. Carl Sagan
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. Bertrand Russell
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? Bertrand Russell
world littles firsts
I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world. Benoit Mandelbrot
world helping mathematics
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. Benoit Mandelbrot
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The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns Art Alexakis
world-religions may belief
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions. Anthony Storr
world newspapers screens
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world. Bill Bryson
world speed
There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it. Bill Burton
world good-things
It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things. Bill Burr
world faces looks
We ought to look the world frankly in the face. Bertrand Russell
world adequate causes
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence Bertrand Russell