Precautionary Principle Quotes

#1. Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. the Precautionary Principle, a favorite tool of environmentalists to bypass the need for facts as the basis of decision-making.

Tim Ball

#3. No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

David Deutsch

#4. Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

Hugh B. Brown

#5. Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.

Wilferd Peterson

#6. Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.

Nicole Curtis

#7. You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#8. I once read that there is an invisible thread that connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break. [ ... ] Please don't let it break, I silently plead to him. I need to know that some cords can't be cut.

Tarryn Fisher

#9. Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle.

William Shakespeare

#11. KARKAT:REMEMBER PANTS TEREZI?? YOU USED TO LOVE PANTS!

Andrew Hussie