Quotations about:
    data mining

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

Ronald Coase (1910-2013) British economist, academic, author

(Attributed)

Criticizing econometricians. Cited as early as 1977. Variants:

• "If you torture data long enough, it will confess to anything you'd like."
• "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."