Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Every action in the present defines future possibilities.

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

The man with courage is a majority.

I am not looking for board positions, I am looking for good governance.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

When I get to heaven I'm gonna find the guy in charge of the weather and kick his rear.