Adventure Quote by Hans Zinsser Download Open image “Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.” — Hans Zinsser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Disease Genuine Infectious diseases Left World
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share
“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis,… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas,… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“It is with the [head louse and body louse] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building,… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close scrutiny, turn… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Man and the rat are utterly destructive. All that nature offers is taken for their own purposes, plant or beast. Gradually these two have… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil of ‘that… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The Archbishop [Thomas Becket] was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth of December. The body lay in the Cathedral all… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
![“It is with the [head louse and body louse] that we are chiefly concerned, and they are so closely related that, even now, by an occasional mésalliance resulting from the meetings of young people about the neck band, a body louse may go native and interbreed with a head louse. The crab louse we may…” quote by Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7d6/hans-zinsser-34557_young-people_it-is-with-the-head-louse-and-body-louse_1442761.jpg)
![“... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is…” quote by Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c7/hans-zinsser-34557_advantage_i-nfectious-disease-is-merely-a-disagree_1503200.jpg)
![“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close scrutiny, turn out to be unconvincing […] Ozanam quotes two sonnets from a Florentine poet—one entitled ‘De Matrona,’ the other 'Ad Priapum'—which he…” quote by Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0f5/hans-zinsser-34557_history_medical-historians-have-cited-many-obser_1854315.jpg)
![“The Archbishop [Thomas Becket] was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on the evening of the twenty-ninth of December. The body lay in the Cathedral all night, and was prepared for burial on the following day. The Archbishop was dressed in an extraordinary collection of clothes. He had on a large…” quote by Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ff/hans-zinsser-34557_quote_the-archbishop-thomas-becket-was-murdere_2861244.jpg)
![“I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
