Quotes About Consensus

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

I received endorsements from Tea Party to moderates alike. And I think that's unique, and that's something I'm proud of.

The sounds of southwestern cacti are broadcast for several weeks until, by general assent, it is agreed that cacti make no sounds.

The supposed American consensus had always been clouded. The experts had just become expert at ignoring the clouds.

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

If you try to please everyone you'll please no one.

In a wider world of political conflict, the town meeting was a haven of consensus.17

The principle of social proof says so: The greater the number of people who find any idea correct, the more the idea will be correct.

when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd.

It states that one means we use to determine what is correct is to find out what other people think is correct.

the principle of social proof. It states that one means we use to determine what is correct is to find out what other people think is correct.

The best solution seldom requires that someone be right and someone else be wrong.

When the fishmongers are all buying at the same price, you can bet they were all drinking at the same inn last night.

Ich bin Mitglied einer ministeriellen Konferenz. Bei einer Konferenz bringt jeder vor, was er haben möchte und für das Richtige hält, und zum Schluß ergibt sich etwas daraus, das keiner ganz gewollt hat: eben das Ergebnis.

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What I'm trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I'm learning that the problems start when you want different things

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.