Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

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

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

You must acquire something of that industrious habit of mind which the study of natural science gives,—the art of comparing, of perceiving true likenesses and true differences, and so of classifying and arranging what you see; the art of connecting facts together in your mind in cause and effect

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

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

I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

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

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

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.

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.