“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.” — John Tukey, Exploratory Data Analysis
Tag: answers
Quote of the Day
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.” — Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
Quote of the Day
“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.” — Robert Aickman, Painted Devils
Quote of the Day
“If you think you have all of the answers that is a sign that you do not have all of the answers.” — Michael Wade, “Monday Morning Advice for Leaders,” Execupundit (2020-03-23)
Quote of the Day
“Some questions remain long after their owners have died. Lingering like ghosts. Looking for the answers they never found in life.” — Michael Frayn, Copenhagen
Quote of the Day
“Once upon a time I had answers. Now I only have questions.” — Bob Lefsetz, “Family”, The Lefsetz Letter
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
“Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.” — Isaac Asimov, The Road to Infinity
Quote of the Day
“One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek.” — Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Quote of the Day
“There seem to be many people who simply wish to be told an answer, any answer, and thereby avoid the burden of keeping two mutually exclusive possibilities in their heads at the same time.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos