Famous quotes containing the words total and/or risk:
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“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)