Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

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

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

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.