If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!