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Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. -- Euripides
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. -- Daniel Nathans
It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. -- Bill Gates
My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis. -- Francis Collins
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. -- Gary L. Francione
The only human disease is amnesia. -- Erin Fall Haskell
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. -- Paracelsus
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers. -- Martha Gellhorn
Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. -- Robert Lanza
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do. -- Lewis Thomas
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. -- Georg Groddeck
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. -- Henri Poincare
I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields. -- Kenneth Kaunda
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease. -- David Agus
When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes. -- James Altucher
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. -- Mercedes McCambridge
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not. -- Francis Collins
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease. -- Alan Huffman
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. -- Paul Farmer
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. -- Larry Niven
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. -- Jared Diamond
But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health. -- Ann Veneman
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. -- James D. Watson
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. -- Gautama Buddha
Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure. -- L. Neil Smith
AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue. -- Nelson Mandela
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the human body is balanced in ph and nutrients it is not susceptible to disease. -- Royal Rife
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. -- John Ruskin
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. -- Michael Fox
The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them. -- Giorgio Baglivi
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. -- Andrew Taylor Still
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken. -- Floyd E. Bloom
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox -- David Foreman
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. -- Thomas A. Edison
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine. -- Michael Sandel
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies. -- Mandawuy Yunupingu
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. -- Mother Teresa
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease. -- Colleen Saidman
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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