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

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.

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.

He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her d

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.