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)

“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)