The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

After all, that’s all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm.

Imaginary evils are incurable.

Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

Each man creates god in his own image.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.