Nature of man Quote by Kyle Harper

It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.

— E. Cheraskin

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

— Jill Lepore

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed…

— Freeman Dyson

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

— B. J. Palmer

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible…

— Lewis Thomas

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

— Louis Pasteur

“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

“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial condos, with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

“In his groundbreaking book Guns, Germs, and Steel, biologist Jared Diamond poses the question: Why did Old World diseases devastate the New World and…

— Douglas Preston

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