Gathering Data Quotes

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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