“Whether statistics be an art or a science… or a scientific art.”

And affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.

The more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced.

We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.

It would appear… that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive.

And leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

It is the basis of social and political dynamics.

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge.

We concern ourselves little.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don’t mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.

I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

I don’t want to be elitist.