Activity Quote by Wilfred Trotter

Like many great ideas in biology, the idea implicating infectious causation in chronic diseases, though simple, has far-reaching implications. It is so simple and…

— Paul W. Ewald

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

— Paracelsus

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

— David Perlmutter

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can…

— Michael J. Fox

Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of…

— Avicenna

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

— Avicenna

All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions…

— Laurence J. Peter

The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

— E. Cheraskin

The whole idea of what is evidence for causation in epidemiology cannot be separated from tTindustry understood that if they could raise doubt about…

— Devra Davis

Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate…

— Ernst Mayr

“In the diagnosis of disease, Hippocrates introduced elements of the scientific method. He urged careful and meticulous observation: “Leave nothing to chance. Overlook nothing.…

— Carl Sagan