Monday, April 5, 2010

Quotes: Science (10)


Science            298          "There are fertile fields now, and healthy babies, in Italy and Africa and India and America, where once the hum of the anopheles brought thin blood and chattering teeth, brought desolate land and death." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            298          "Facts of science are greater than the little men who find those facts." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            299          "…not one particle of doubt he had to risk human lives; animals simply will not catch yellow fever." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            303          "That is one of the humors of microbe hunting—the way men make their finds." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            310         " …Walter Reed’s moral nature told him: you must kill men to save them." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

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