Quotes About Consensus

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.

We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.

It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.

Conservatives have the advantage of knowing how to debate each other on issues, principles, and priorities, and that is where they should engage Trump.

We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.

There is a growing consensus in the private sector that companies can and should take action to address the problem of gun violence in our country.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of what they do, which hardly anyone challenges. But do the numbers add up? For all the claims made about the arts, how accurate are they?

Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.

When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.

That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone.

In my district, I have a very clear mandate to work across the aisle.

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

There is no groupism or factions in the BJP. We are one.

We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

I always talk with my technical staff before I announce a squad. I have always done that; I am changing nothing.

To address the open question of whether we are addicted to technological devices and platforms, Congress must understand the current scientific consensus, potential gaps in research, and the best way to build a body of evidence that can inform effective policymaking.

Climate change is the 800-pound gorilla in the living room that the media dances around. But in the scientific community, it's a settled question: 95 percent of scientists believe this is happening with 100 percent confidence temperatures are rising.