Data Scientist Quotes

#1. Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Nate Silver

#2. A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

DJ Patil

#3. Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Scott Nicholson

#4. Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills

Rachel Schutt

#5. Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.

Anthony Goldbloom

#6. Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.

Scott Adams

#7. There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.

Paul Broun

#8. If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#10. As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Francis Collins

#11. Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

J. David Lewis-Williams

#12. While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

Amit Priyavadan Mehta

#13. A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Natalie Angier

#15. Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

George Herbert Mead

#16. Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.

Steve Squyres