Man follows only phantoms.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

I only know everything if you ask the right questions.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

I'd want her [Gretchen Carlson] to do what makes her happy.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

I only have control over one person and that’s myself. And I feel good about it.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.