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He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease:_x000D__x000D_1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue._x000D__x000D_2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture._x000D__x000D_3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally._x000D__x000D_An early statement of Koch's postulates.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply to the living body at all times, from the first moment until death.

We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and disease. This concentration is made possible by the common function of nucleic acids as the molecular midwife of all reproductive particles. Indeed it is the nucleic acids which, in spite of their chemical obscurity, are giving to biology a unity which has so far been lacking, a chemical unity.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.