Jacque Fresco Quotes

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

It's a question of evidence-based politics. If you know that something does not work, you should not keep doing it.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

I have very large ideas about the mineral wealth of the nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible.

… scientists are required to back up their claims not with private feelings but with publicly checkable evidence. Their experiments must have rigorous controls to eliminate spurious effects.

Go with the science!.

Do not speculate; get data and calculate.

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

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

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

The raw materials that Australia has in abundance will always be critical to world growth.

I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

Never, ever, compromise on science.

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

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody else. I am no more fundamentalist when I say evolution is true than when I say it is true that New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere. We believe in evolution because the evidence supports it, and we would abandon it overnight if new evidence arose to disprove it.