Populations Quotes

139 Populations quotes by 122 unique authors

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact… — Luc Montagnier
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal… — Ivan Illich
My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,… — John Cheever
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two… — Ernst Mayr
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by… — Ernst Mayr
Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have… — Herbert Hoover
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite… — Bertrand Russell
The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing… — Rick Bass
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone;… — Michel Foucault
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural… — E. O. Wilson
Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes… — Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human… — Lundy Bancroft
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by… — Eric Hoffer
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on… — Omar Bongo
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their… — Peter Eigen
Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked… — Laurie Garrett
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations… — Laurie Garrett
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. — Amos Bronson Alcott
We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness,… — John Carlos Frey
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and… — Junot Diaz
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please… — Penn Jillette
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35… — Meir Kahane
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because… — Alveda King

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