Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.