When you study a million things in a few people you’re going to find a lot of stuff and not all of it is real

 --- Steven Deeks, quoted in WSJ article The New Clues About Who Will Develop Long Covid by Sumathi Reddy, Jan. 31, 2022

In context

While promising, the findings in all of the studies need to be tested further in larger groups of people, says Steven Deeks, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who wasn’t involved in the studies and is heading a separate study on long Covid.

“When you study a million things in a few people you’re going to find a lot of stuff and not all of it is real,” says Dr. Deeks.

The experience of art is exemplary in its provision of truths that are inaccessible by scientific methods

 --- Jadranka Skorin-Kapov on Hans-Georg Gadamer's view that “truth” and “method” were at odds with one another, in Skorin-Kapov (2016), The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity, Lexington Books, p. 105, cited in the Wikipedia article on Gadamer (accessed 25 January 2022).

Context:

Gadamer's task in Truth and Method is to legitimate knowledge and truth in human sciences, away from the grip of the natural sciences's explicit and programmable method. The natural sciences employ ... The experience of art is exemplary in its provision of truths that are inaccessible by scientific methods, and this experience is projected to the whole domain of human sciences. Cognition is scientific understanding, based on concepts and scientific methods, and provides verifiable knowledge—but it is only a part of understanding. Understanding is much wider than cognition—it is also interpretation.

There are no facts about the future

 --- often attributed to Dr. David T. Hulett, authority on risk; however, in "What Should We Do with Unknowns in Schedule Risk Analysis?," (PM World Journal, Vol. IV, Issue VIII – August 2015), he cites a reference I haven't been able to find online:

Moses, Lincoln
Energy Information Administration Annual Report to Congress
Volume 3, Administrator’s Message
1977 US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Amateurs talk about strategy ... Professionals talk about logistics ...

 --- R.H. Barrow, according to Barry Popik 

From Popik's piece on Quora:

“Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics. Professionals talk about logistics and sustainability in warfare” was said by Robert Hilliard Barrow (1922-2008), a United States Marine Corps four-star general, in an interview published in the San Diego (CA) Union on November 11, 1979.

Omar Bradley (1893-1981), the last five-star officer of the United States, is often credited, but it’s uncertain if he ever said it. “For military command is as much a practice of human relations as it is a science of tactics and a knowledge of logistics”—a somewhat related quotation—was printed in Bradley’s book, A Soldier’s Story (1951). “I was reminded of what General Omar Bradley once said: ‘Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics’” was a letter printed in The Economist (London, UK) on November 16, 1996. General Bradley’s statements were usually recorded, and it’s unlikely that he said it and that it would not be cited in print before 1996.

in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has their reasons

 --- attrib. to Jean Renoir, via Peter Rainer's movie review Oscar contender ‘A Hero’ explores the complexities of doing the right thing, CS Monitor January 6, 2022

From the review:

The title of the new Iranian movie, “A Hero,” is ironic. There are no real heroes in this film, and no bad guys, either. The writer-director, Asghar Farhadi, best known for his Oscar-winning 2011 masterpiece “A Separation,” is too much of a humanist to resort to the tactics of melodrama. 

The credo of the great French director Jean Renoir, to whom Farhadi has sometimes been compared, was that “in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has their reasons.” And so it is in “A Hero,” which is shortlisted for a best international feature film Oscar. Just when you think you’ve pinned down someone as good or bad, the tables are turned and the complexities thicken. Just like in real life.