Carl Hart

“My kids are really into social justice.”

“It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.”

“I had a grandmother who was really strong, who doted on me, who wanted to make sure that I didn't go off the beaten path, although I did.”

“My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.”

“Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.”

“When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.”

“Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.”

“All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.”

“The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.”

“You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.”

“When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.”

“As a parent, a scientist, and educator, what I know is that it's always better to provide the education that will help keep my children - all people - safe, even if I don't want them to engage in the behavior.”

“I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.”

“If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.”

“Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to be the one that disregards law more so than any other president we've had.”