In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security