An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world

No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.

I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.