If we’re going to survive as a civilization, we have to choose reason over superstition and evidence over ideology.Brian Cox
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.Terry Pratchett
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.Ben Goldacre
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.Leonard Cohen