Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity.

If you can make one person listen to you, you can make the world Hear you.

God will be present whether asked or not.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

I really like the really high banked tracks.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.