Decision Science Quotes

#1. implementation science is more important than decision science.

Patrick Lencioni

#2. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Paul Gibbons

#3. Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.

Pearl Zhu

#4. Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Paul Gibbons

#5. Decision making is an art only until the person understands the science.

Pearl Zhu

#6. A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that's so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Georgia Clark

#7. When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

John Sulston

#8. It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans.

Santosh Kalwar

#11. All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds.

Paul Gibbons

#12. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#13. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Paul Gibbons

#14. In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Perlmutter

#15. The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

Lois Gibbs

#16. Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive ... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

#17. Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda

Devon Monk

#18. Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Paul Gibbons

#19. In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.

Nancy Gibbs

#20. Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

Mike Johanns

#21. Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by special interests.

James Hansen

#22. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.

Paul Gibbons

#23. Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

#24. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Christiaan Barnard

#25. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Leo Szilard

#26. When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

Diane Ravitch

#27. The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence.

Paul Gibbons

#28. I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

George W. Bush

#29. I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.

Bobby Jindal

#30. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Paul Gibbons

#31. It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

Seraphine Abrams

#32. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

David Amerland

#33. Freedom of will is born from the neurons. And that freedom allows you to sometimes make even the worst decisions ever in your life. And by making the worst decision, you simply learn what would be the better decision in future.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. The science of decision-making is to make sure there is an effective decision process in place.

Pearl Zhu

#35. The most purely free decision one can make - and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth - is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

J.S.B. Morse

#36. In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#37. Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.

Paul Gibbons

#38. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Paul Gibbons

#39. In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers.

Martin Worthington

#40. It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#41. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Paul Gibbons

#42. You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richard Dawkins

#43. Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

Shirley M. Tilghman

#44. Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Jay Leno