What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.

Abandoning your true self amounts to suicide except that it is less dramatic. Don't commit suicide so that you may appease some folks...

India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.

In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.

The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.

A story is built on characters and reasons.