Age Quote by Rene Dubos

... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have…

— Rene Dubos

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

— Rene Dubos

Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.

— Rene Dubos

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a…

— Rene Dubos

With reference to life there is not one nature; there are only associations of states and circumstances, varying from place to place and from…

— Rene Dubos

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

— Rene Dubos

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve…

— Rene Dubos

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his…

— Rene Dubos

The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies…

— Rene Dubos

Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the…

— Rene Dubos

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

— Rene Dubos

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

— Rene Dubos