...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos Age Copy Share Image
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle… — Rene Dubos Disease Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Belief Copy Share Image
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization. — Rene Dubos Animal Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Crisis Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Adventure Copy Share Image
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression… — Rene Dubos Challenges Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Absence Copy Share Image
...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to… — Rene Dubos Acting Copy Share Image
... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
