Marvin Bower Quotes

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

You have to be willing to have the decision-making follow the data.

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

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

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.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

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

Even a conscientious person cannot reach reasonable political conclusions without trustworthy, factual information.

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

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

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

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

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!

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

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

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.

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that benefit innovators and the American people.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.