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

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.

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.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice.

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

So many girls have become famous for literally nothing - other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man