"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insu..."
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."
"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."
"The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion."
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
"I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do."
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
"I'm writing a book called 'The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus' about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret Santa so it's totally fair; how to decorate your tree mathematically; how to win at Monopoly."
"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
"Offshoring is like the winter. You don't ask if it is good or bad - you ask what do you do about it. The answer is you dress warmly."
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
"To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters."
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
"The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper."
"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice."
"I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes."
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
"The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system."
