Peter L. Bernstein Classics Boxed Set Quotes

“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature. Until human beings discovered a way across that boundary, the future was a mirror of the past or the murky domain of oracles and soothsayers who held a monopoly over knowledge of anticipated events.”
― Peter L Bernstein, Peter L. Bernstein Classics Boxed Set: Capital Ideas, Against the Gods, the Power of Gold