Anthony Fauci Quotes

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

The intelligence community, not wanting to be caught napping, tends to over-warn rather than under-warn.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

I grow more conservative every day on the question of removals. On ex parte statements, I have made mistakes in removing men who, perhaps, ought to have been retained, and in appointing wrong men. Not many removals have been made. Less than any Administration since John Q. Adams. But I shall be more cautious in future; make removals only in clear cases, and appoint only on the best and fullest evidence of fitness.

Hawks usually care about benefits; doves most about costs. Neither benefits or costs however are easily estimated in advance.

The perils of change are so great the promise of the most hopeful theories is so often deceptive, that it is frequently the wiser part to uphold the existing state of things, if it can be done, even though, in point of argument, it should be utterly indefensible.

Every technology is used before it is completely understood. We are living in that lag, and it is a right time to keep our head.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical change, until someone has told them what it will lead to.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.