“The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived theories.”

“If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.”

“Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems”

“Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.”

“The trouble is that the Marxists in our country are ignorant of the real Marxism... They supress... Phony Marxists they twist [data] because they have pre-conceived notions which they want to [prove]”

“We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think... Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of the people to meet the challenges placed before them, but rather the failure of both our great political parties to place those challenges honestly and courageously before the people, and to trust the willingness of the people to do the things that really need to be done.”