It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox:… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his… — Benjamin Waterhouse Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults… — Julian Aleksandrowicz Copy Share Image
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
“Ask the Aztecs and the Incas whether or not they would have liked to have access to vaccines. Oh, wait, you can't.… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image