Change Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Indeed, as predicted, when the gene encoding the hemoglobin B chain was later identified and sequenced in sickle-cell patients, there was a single change:…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge?…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

— Thomas Sydenham

“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action of the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into…

— Tom O'Connor

A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore,…

— Oliver Sacks

“Is Disease a Reversion?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Giorgio Baglivi

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many…

— Robert A. Burton

“The gene provides an organizing principle for modern biology—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling our bodies and fates.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee