This repository contains a collection of quotes about data science that aim to summarize some of the wisdom of practicing it.
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If you are currently or formerly employed as a data scientist (regardless of your actual job title)
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"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it."
Lord Kelvin
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
T. S. Eliot
Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun!
John Archibald Wheeler
Knowledge only progresses by making mistakes as fast as possible.
John Archibald Wheeler
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin