Deborah Birx Quotes

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

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

Go with the science!.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

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.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

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

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.

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

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

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

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

You can’t have opinions unless you have information.

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion. But it is also useful to have some facts.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.