Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the… — Avicenna 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
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it… — John Tilden M.D Copy Share Image
I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter… — Herbert M. Shelton 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
In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some… — Richard Pitcairn Copy Share Image
“Vaccination has made smallpox extinct in the wild, as well as rinderpest, a relative of measles that affects cattle and buffalo, among… — Chris von Csefalvay 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
Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without… — Blaise Pascal 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
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how… — Michael Specter 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
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day… — Edward Jenner 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
“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How did we cure polio, smallpox and send a man to the moon? How did we decode the human genome in just… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a… — Scott Gottlieb 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
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
With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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
[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
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
“Tests showed there was no enrichment. “They’re just slinging purified uranium at us, straight from the mines,” Bob said. But the next… — Gregory Benford 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
“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
In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war.… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image