Carl Hart Quotes

Go with the science!.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

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.'

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

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

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.

I always believe in facts.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

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

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.