Stephen A. Smith Quotes

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

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

If people were really trying to learn a lot and determine what is true, the would listen a lot and talk a little.

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

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

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

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.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

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

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

I like critics with strong opinions.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.