- Experience teaches nothing without theory. (W. Edwards Deming)
- Without sensibility no object would be given to us, and without understanding none would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind (Kant, Critique Pure Reason.)
- The Sophists then appeared, men of no system but surveying all, only to find a multitude of ineffectual predicates applied to the world. (W.A. Heidel)
- A radical empiricism … denies the possibility of knowledge (Hans Reichenbach, The rise of scientific philosophy)
- no matter their ‘depth’ and sophistication, machine learning algorithms merely fit model forms to data. (Coveney, Dougherty, Highfield)
- Data have no meaning apart from their context (W. Shewhart)
- Gelman and Loken warn about the dangers of Borgean "garden of forking paths" when analyzing data. here.
References
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/374/2080/20160153
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