risk Quotes

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.