Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

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.

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.