Trevor Noah Quotes

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

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

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

Go with the science!.

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

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

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

I believe in things that have proof.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

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

If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

Science is the only true guide in life.

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.