If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.
– Fred Menger, chemistry professor (1937- )
There are
stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.10^{11}
– Richard Feynman (1918-1988), physicist, Nobel laureate
The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
– Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), biologist and writer
[Source]