Marvin Bower Quotes

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

I'm a fact-based leader.

I care about facts. I don't care about your feelings.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

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.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

In everything we do, as long as I have anything to say about it, we're going to follow the facts independently, wherever they may lead, to whomever they may lead, no matter who likes it.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

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.

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.

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.

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

The intelligence community is intended to base its intelligence estimates on facts and analysis—not philosophy and conviction.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

Go with the science!.

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

I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.