"The world can now maintain an acute infection……" — Nathan Wolfe
"The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet."
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Nathan Wolfe
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15 Quotes by Nathan Wolfe
Nathan Wolfe has 15 quotes on this site.
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Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in…
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that…
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The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a…
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is…
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent…
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush…
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Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks -…
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There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they…
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with…
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the…
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More Acute Quotes
This quote is filed under Acute Quotes,
one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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