Currents Quote by Paul W. Ewald

The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.

— Giorgio Baglivi

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

— Mary Baker Eddy

“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an evolutionary perspective…

— Randolph M. Nesse

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

— Bill Gates

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

— Robert Greene

Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or…

— Huntington Willard

“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex…

— Atul Gawande

“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help…

— Randolph M. Nesse

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and…

— Anonymous

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

Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach…

— Monica Hesse