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.

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.

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 have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'