Robert Falcon Scott Quotes

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

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

We should be very chary of sacrificing large numbers of people for the sake of a contingent end, however advantageous that may appear… We never know enough to make the chance worth taking.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it matter that he doesn't light up through our eyepieces? That he missed us when he could have taken us own? If two possibilities are equally probable but mutually exclusive, which one matters the most? Which one do you bet your life on?

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

You just never know when it might be cookie time. And, that is what the dogs have taught me.

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said.

Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Risk is not a dirty word.

Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Though he love not to buy the pig in the poke.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.