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Isaac Newton1643–1727

Isaac Newton on risk

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

More from Isaac Newton

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] A facsimile of the original is online at
- Knowledge
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
- Truth & Lies
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
- Work

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More about risk

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I…I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Road Not Taken (1915), Mountain Interval (1916, 1920), The Road Not Taken, st. 4In context
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- Leadership
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein1879–1955

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