Quotes About Disease

Corporations growing like a carcinoma.

I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack of resources… And I began to see there was something that, at that time, seemed to me almost as important as being a famous researcher or making some substantial contribution to medical science, and this was helping those people.

And with advances in cellular and molecular biology, we can piece together how such nervous system and hormonal changes can affect our susceptibility to disease.

That is your disease: you want to capture life in formulas of your own. You want to embrace all aspects of life with your intellect instead of allowing yourself to be embraced by life. You want to create the world all over again each time, instead of enjoying it as it is.

I understood better the range of human capability; it was far broader than I'd thought. In my previous life, I'd dealt mostly with people at the top of their game. Now I was dealing with people whose capabilities had been diminished. By disease, doubt, fatigue.

An oft-mentioned example in this regard is the Medieval practice of catapulting corpses. The primal scene in this regard is the 14th century Italian trading post at Caffa, on the northern border of the Black Sea. Ongoing skirmishes between Italian merchants and Muslim locals led, in one instance, to the catapulting of plague-ridden corpses by the latter, over the fortress walls of the former.87

In proposing that one truth may derail another, it invites an enduring question—do we believe vaccination to be more monstrous than disease?

When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When

But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.

So I had this fascination with old bones and being able to diagnose disease in old bones. And I was doing that, and started to do bone reports for the Channel 4 series 'Time Team'.

Always remember: You have to identify the disease before you can begin work on a cure. In the case of support for Donald Trump, the results are in: It isn't the economy. It's the racism, stupid.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a 'black disease'; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are immoral.

From all the available evidence, the body has an excellent immune response to Zika. Therefore, once you get it once, you will never get it again.

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.