We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Reliable quality must be supported by scientific research and complete data.
This quote emphasizes the importance of science and research in determining the quality of a product or process. It argues that making conclusions about effectiveness based on incomplete data is not only misguided but inherently nonsensical, highlighting the necessity of thorough investigation and evidence in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Themes
QualityScienceResearchDataInference
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about product development and the importance of testing, one might quote, 'Quality without science and research is absurd.'
Similar quotes
One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.
Otto LilienthalRead
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
David DeutschRead
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.
Deepak ChopraRead
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. ClarkeRead
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert EinsteinRead