Famous quotes containing the words total and/or risk:
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Better risk loss of truth than chance of errorthat is your faith-vetoers 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 (18421910)