Maxime Bernier Quotes

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

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

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

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.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

You can’t make policy on the basis of slogans.

Go with the science!.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

The wise policymaker doesn't assume that any policy adopted in good faith will have good results. Instead, he or she weighs the likely outcome of any new policy based on facts and experience - not sentiments and dreams.

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

President Trump, when challenged on facts, says that many people feel the way he does. But feelings should not take the place of reason in matters of public policy.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

The parts of physics that are exact are the parts of physics that are exact. The parts that are inexact are vastly greater. Sensible scientists don't waste their time pushing against doors that endlessly will not give. They are opportunistic and go where they can, but there are pitfalls in that.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

We should follow the facts wherever they lead us.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

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

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