Quotes About Risk

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.

Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters.

It is the bullet you don't hear that gets you.

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

There's no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.

Life is a gamble, we scramble for money, I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?