Julie Payette Quotes

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

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

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

I'm a fact-based leader.

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.

Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

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

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

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

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