“Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?”

“I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.”

“A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”

“There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.”

“Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.”

“The penalty for scientific irrelevance is, of course, that the statistician's work is ignored by the scientific community.”

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”

“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”

“Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem.”