Disease Quote by Alice Hamilton

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology…

— Samuel Wilson

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and…

— Peter Agre

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

— Hugh Casson

“This approach was typical of the Industrial Age: inadvertently removing something essential for human health, discovering it was essential for human health—and then developing…

— John Durant

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning…

— Richard Ernst

Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me.

— Alissa Quart

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple,…

— Anonymous

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very…

— Stephanie Kwolek

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from…

— Edward Jenner

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon…

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

— Howard Jacobson

Downton Abbey has taught me there was a time when British healthcare was just as horrifying as ours.

— Anonymous