The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

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.

Just when you may think the world has given up on you, take a look at your self, and remember the 1 person you can always turn to.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.