The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

I am obsessed with reading and writing.

My child has to be an artist, because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood

Running for president was a good decision.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey