“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”

— Charles Babbage

Quoted in William Kenneth Richmond (1969), The Education Industry.
May be modern paraphrase of "the errors which arise from the absence of facts" quote above.
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mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical enginee… 1791–1871

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