The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

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.

Do you believe in god? I have no need for that hypothesis, he may be around though.

Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual.

Your health, wealth, position, performance, ability and attitude are the results of your decisions.

If You Are Not Getting Any Kind of Negative Feedback, Than You Probably Are Not Working Hard Enough.

Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.