Al Franken Quotes

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

I am very pro-science.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

I'm a firm believer in science.

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

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

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

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.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Science rules!

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Science has changed the face of this earth: it has harnessed the forces of Nature -- forces whose secret laws it had first to discover -- it has created practically a new world within the memory of men living….Science -- the scientists -- doesn't pretend to have grasped in its fingers the Eternal Truth …Science doesn't demand that one believe or be damned. Science reasons. Science investigates. Science tests itself….Science works -- builds -- quietly prevails -- promises little and performs much.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion

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

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

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