Fact-Based Decisions Quotes

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

Don't listen to experts.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

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

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

I don't take others' views seriously because that isn't a fact. I do respect everyone's view, but I am not affected.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

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

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

I think it's dangerous to make a decision based on where one thinks the public may or may not be. Aside from the fact that that's not what the law prescribes, it's also, I think, not what reasoned decision-making is all about... You always try to look at the facts and apply the law faithfully.

I don't deal with hypotheticals.