When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

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.

You are the future that will never become my past.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

They can call or e-mail, too, but I'd rather see the bug.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.