The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Humans to ashes, People to dust, Its all because in God we trust.

Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.

Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

I am very confident in preaching.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.