Richard J. Roberts Quotes

Let’s end President Bush’s war on science—muzzling the scientists and taking information off websites.

The government needs good science, and I’m not willing to abdicate the role of advising the Administration and Congress on [science] policy.

I'm on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.

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

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Our [politicians] responsibility is to be sure that we utilize the best science.

Whenever you involve scientists with politicians there is a struggle.

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

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

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

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

But whereas skepticism and uncertainty have always been the heart and soul of science, confidence and certainty are the coin of the realm in much of today’s public discourse. Unquestioning confidence is deeply troubling for the scientific community because it is not the currency we trade in, and it has led people in America and around the world to question scientific enterprise itself. We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

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

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.

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

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.