Matt Rosendale Quotes

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

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.

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

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

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

Seek truth from facts.

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

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

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

Opinion is dominating, which is absolutely ridiculous - there wouldn't be anything for people to have opinions about if there weren't people out there gathering facts on the ground.

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

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

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me.

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

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.