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

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

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.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Up with skirts, down with pants!'

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

Its not like I have all the answers.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.