
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6
Source: The House of Mirth
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6
“Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.”
5. The Rules of Probability. p. 71.
Understanding Uncertainty (2006)
On the creation of the hydrogen bomb, in Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Context: At the end of the war, most people wanted to stop. I didn't. Because here was more knowledge. And in the coming uncertain period, with a dangerous man like Stalin around, and our incomplete knowledge, I felt that more knowledge is necessary. Among the people who knew a great deal about the hydrogen bomb, I was the only advocate of it. And that is, I think, my contribution. Not that I invented it, others would have — and others in the Soviet Union did. But I was the one person who put knowledge, and the availability of knowledge, above everything else.
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Source: As quoted in "Voicing With a Heart"