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
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the… — Rene Dubos Depends Copy Share Image
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating. — Rene Dubos Disease 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
Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was… — Rene Dubos Certain 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
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos Bible 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
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
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the… — Rene Dubos Age 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
You cannot see the Milky Way in New York City any more ... We risk the loss of our sensual perception. And… — Rene Dubos Bright lights Copy Share Image
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments… — Rene Dubos Awareness 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
