Piers Corbyn Quotes

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era." Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.

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

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Governments should want and even crave the best possible scientific advice. With reliable knowledge come better decisions, fewer mistakes and more results achieved for each pound spent.

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

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

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

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.'

If there is any conflict between Congress and science, Congress will win. Congress is paying the bills.

Our [politicians] responsibility is to be sure that we utilize the best science.

Whenever you involve scientists with politicians there is a struggle.

Let’s end President Bush’s war on science—muzzling the scientists and taking information off websites.

I tell Administration officials this is the science. This is the recommendation. What they do with it is beyond my control.

Go with the science!.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

I'm on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.