Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe...

The best can never stop coming because there are always better ways of being the best.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.