Books Quote by Molly Caldwell Crosby

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”

— Paul Levy

“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

“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

“The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that…

— Herbert M. Shelton

“One of the great diseases of this age is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it is not able…

— Barnaby Rich

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

“An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” epidemic.”

— Rhonda Byrne

“Diseases don’t ruin lives just because they rot off noses. They destroy people if the rest of society isolates them and treats them as…

— Jennifer Wright

“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

“I believe that we will never quite understand the wonderful disease that is the human condition. We can only hope that perhaps as we…

— Preston K. Bullard

“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us…

— Cacilda Jethá