Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

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.

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.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

When we cannot get what we love we must love what is within our reach.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.