Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

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.

The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

The quieter we become the more we can hear the love language of God speaking to our hearts.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

Audience response to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. back in the '60s - well, I was frankly surprised by the show's success and the attendant publicity for David and myself.

I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?