I was looking for something like baseball, where theres a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. Thats when I discovered politics. – Nate Silver
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. – Nate Silver
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes. – Nate Silver
I love South American food, and I havent really been down there. I really need a vacation. – Nate Silver
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. – Paul Davies