Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Natural selection is not evolution.

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

We can't put up a movie that looks beautiful but doesn't have substance.

A friend in need is a friend indeed

The best time for new beginnings, is now.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States.

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else.

Golf is about how well you accept, respond to, and score with your misses much more so than it is a game of your perfect shots.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

In every conceivable manner the family is a link to our past bridge to our future.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

You can't get blood out of a turnip

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I highly recommend getting older Theres less tendency to people please.

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.