Martin Heinrich Quotes

Go with the science!.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.

Science is the only true guide in life.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.