Warren Buffett Quotes

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

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

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

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

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

Go with the science!.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Science is the only true guide in life.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

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

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.