Risk Aversion Equal

Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:

“Better risk loss of truth than chance of error—that is your faith-vetoer’s exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“If you say, “I’m for equal pay,” that’s a reform. But if you say. “I’m a feminist,” that’s ... a transformation of society.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)