Francis Collins Quotes

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Go with the science!.

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

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.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

I'm a fact-based leader.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.