"No observational problem will not be solved by more data."

-- Vera Rubin

#Data Quotes #Problem Quotes

“I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.”
“My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Darwin could work only half an hour at a time; but in many diligent half-hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy. Green, the historian, tells us that the world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
“How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.”
“I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.”
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
“Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. Iâ€™ll never master that.”

Source : Stig Dagerman (1988). “German autumn”
“Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision”

Source : Song: I'm Gone, Album: Careless World: Rise Of The Last King

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