Experiments Quote by Marianne Moore

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

— Albert Camus

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

— Michel de Montaigne

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

— Anonymous

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the…

— Ambrose Bierce

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

— Albert Camus

“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing.…

— Carl Sagan

“No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.”

— Joseph E. Persico

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and religious healers,…

— Jeanne Achterberg

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the…

— Sean O'Casey

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.”

— Robert Steven Gottfried