All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
Interpretation
Policy decisions should be based on scientific evidence rather than on popular opinion or noise.
This quote emphasizes the importance of science in forming policies. It suggests that effective policy-making should rely on factual data and empirical research, rather than being swayed by influential individuals or groups who may shout the loudest. By advocating for science as the guiding principle, the quote highlights the need for rational and evidence-based approaches in governance, ensuring that decisions benefit society as a whole.
In practice
During a debate on environmental regulations, this quote can be used to stress the importance of scientific research in policymaking.
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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