Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
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p.94.Ernest Gellner
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If FDA officials err on the side of under-caution in approving an unsafe drug, they are attacked by the media and patient groups, and investigated by Congress. Their victims, sick and dead people, are highly visible. If FDA officials err on the side of over-caution, keeping a safe and effective drug off the market, who's to know? The victims are invisible. For example, neither the Americans who get sick or die from meningitis C this year, nor their loved ones, will know that their illness or death could have been prevented had it not been for errors by FDA officials. It's a no-brainer to figure out which error FDA officials prefer to make.
Walter E. Williams
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.
George Gershwin
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
His indefatigable exertions in the detection and correction of the great abuses then existing in the management of the York Lunatic asylum, and the formation of another and very extensive establishment for the care and protection of pauper lunatics at Wakefield, will be monuments of his humble spirit and perseverance and philanthropy.
Godfrey Higgins
General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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