Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.

Generally there is Stigler's law of eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.