Quotable quotes

Ngô Quang Hưng | 07 tháng 08, 2006 | Bản để in Bản để in

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.
– Fred Menger, chemistry professor (1937- )

There are 10^{11} 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.
– 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

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