Disease Quotes

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

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

Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

Unlived dreams often show up in your body as disease. Go for the Big Wow. Life is short!

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

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

I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check.

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

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