Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

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

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

Go with the science!.

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

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

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

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

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

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.'

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

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

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

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

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

I always believe in facts.

We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so easy to pick up a sound byte and say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that," without really thinking.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

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

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.