... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community… — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers. — Rene Dubos Adventure Copy Share Image
...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. — Rene Dubos Age Copy Share Image
But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than… — Rene Dubos Absence Copy Share Image
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place… — Rene Dubos Association Copy Share Image
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself… — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization… — Rene Dubos Achieve Copy Share Image
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and… — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the… — Rene Dubos Ability Copy Share Image
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability… — Rene Dubos Ability Copy Share Image
The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it… — Rene Dubos Belief Copy Share Image
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos Aberration Copy Share Image
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. — Rene Dubos Can do Copy Share Image
Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. — Rene Dubos Creeps Copy Share Image
Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it. — Rene Dubos Decision Copy Share Image
It is possible to analyze the biological and social influences that make each human being unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable, but this analysis… — Rene Dubos Human beings Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Continuity Copy Share Image
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization. — Rene Dubos Animal Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the… — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. — Rene Dubos Decision Copy Share Image
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos Character Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Civilization Copy Share Image
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos Bible Copy Share Image
What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body. — Rene Dubos Body Copy Share Image
