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.

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

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 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.

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 understood him, it would not be God.

But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.

He was top-heavy with conceit.

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.