The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still… — Mary Calderone Copy Share Image
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry… — Rick Rollens Copy Share Image
Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of… — Michael Specter 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
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunisation…There is no… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
That is why we have the polio vaccine. People are blazing their own trial. That is what seems to be important. I… — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Too many vaccines with too many untested ingredients are being given too early to too many children and are causing too many… — Stephen Heartland Copy Share Image
“Immunization is total nonsense! More than that is what's hidden from people about vaccines. They are dangerous. One child out of five… — Guylaine Lanctot Copy Share Image
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Safe and effective” should not just be a slogan to promote vaccines. These words should represent truth after scientific proof has been… — Stephen Heartland Copy Share Image
There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that,… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a… — Ezekiel Emanuel 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
For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
When the government controls a limited supply, the government gets to decide who gets the vaccines and who doesn't. In some cases,… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But… — Larry Craig Copy Share Image
From the day the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the Granite State, we hit the ground running to get… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image