Liam Neeson Quotes

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

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.

I am very pro-science.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

Many of my friends are scientists.

Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.

Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

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

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.