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.

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.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Everything can be satirized.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.