Shahid Khan Quotes

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

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

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

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

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.

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

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.