Immune system Quote by David Quammen

Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system…

— Daniel Suarez

Sometimes relationship define the full meaning of parasite and the host.

— Juniorjk

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

— James Lovelock

“the key to survival is the ability of the “host” to recognize and limit the invasiveness of its viral or malignant components.”

— Edwin H Friedman

“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”

— Peter H. Gregory

Form is the host; content is the virus.

— Jeff Noon

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

— Jean Cocteau

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

— Ritchie Blackmore

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

— Carl Rogers

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.

— Renee Fleming

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

— Mira Grant

“When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness…

— David Quammen