Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

- John Allen Paulos

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

- John Allen Paulos

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite incli…

- John Allen Paulos

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless…

- John Allen Paulos

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

- John Allen Paulos

Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

- John Allen Paulos

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

- John Allen Paulos

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innu…

- John Allen Paulos

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

- John Allen Paulos