... 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
The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle… — Rene Dubos Disease Copy Share Image
Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become… — Rene Dubos 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
...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
With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place… — Rene Dubos 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
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos Bounds 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
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to… — Rene Dubos Abstract Copy Share Image
As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will… — Rene Dubos Adventure Copy Share Image
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of… — Rene Dubos Crisis Copy Share Image
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression… — Rene Dubos Challenges Copy Share Image
The mechanisms of bis metricate naturethe most healing power of natureare so effective that most diseases are self-terminating. — René Dubos Doctor Copy Share Image
