Brian Cox Quotes

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

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

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

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

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Careful economic analysis does have one important benefit, which is that it can help kill ideas that are completely logically inconsistent or wildly at variance with the data. This insight covers at least 90 percent of proposed economic policies

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances.

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

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

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

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

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

Choosing what we think rather than reaction to our emotions.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

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

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'