All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Be that as it may, I think someday you'll meet a man worth giving up your independence for.

I miss you Annabeth. I know it’s wrong, but I can’t stop thinkin’ about you. I think about you all the damn time.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

The reason I didn't like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o'clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.

Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.