Royal Quotes

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

However many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions.