Evidence-Based Solutions Quotes

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

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.

Never bet against science!

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos never rest.

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.

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.

My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people…

We all have an obligation to move beyond anecdotes.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.