Quotes from Rene Dubos

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.