Your Excellency, 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.

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.

I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.

You pick out the big men! I'll make them brave!