Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

When I am holding a water balloon, so many things look so unnecessarily dry.

I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me”

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!