To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

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.

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.

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.