Book Quote by John Allen Paulos

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

— John Allen Paulos

I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk…

— John Allen Paulos

The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to make the astrology column…

— John Allen Paulos

In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

— John Allen Paulos

“The nuclear weapons on board just one of our Trident submarines contain eight times the firepower expended in all of World War II.”

— 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

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

— John Allen Paulos

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

— John Allen Paulos

“I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as “historical factorials.” Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as…

— John Allen Paulos

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

— John Allen Paulos

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

— John Allen Paulos

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

— John Allen Paulos