Rene Dubos Quotes

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• Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.
• Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
• The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.
• There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the…
• Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
• The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots…
• The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
• Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
• Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
• Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population…
• It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
• It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the…
• Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
• The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has…
• The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
• ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.
• In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the…
• ...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious…
• Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was…

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