Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

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

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

Go with the science!.

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

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

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.'

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

I’m opposed to passing laws based on phony science.

Our [politicians] responsibility is to be sure that we utilize the best science.

Anecdotal experience, unfortunately, trumps scientific evidence.

… scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

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

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.

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

When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.