The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. — Rene Dubos Copy Share
...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos Copy Share
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep… — Rene Dubos Copy Share
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos Copy Share
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos Copy Share
Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. — Rene Dubos Copy Share
