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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.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

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

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.