... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas,… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“It is with the [head louse and body louse] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building,… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close scrutiny, turn… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Man and the rat are utterly destructive. All that nature offers is taken for their own purposes, plant or beast. Gradually these two have… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil of ‘that… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
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