Graeme Isaak

“Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst