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Virologist Inspirational Quotes (109)

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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
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They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.
Peter Duesberg
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There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.
Peter Duesberg
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I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
Harold E. Varmus
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Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested.
Norman Pirie
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Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
Joseph DeRisi
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It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.
Luc Montagnier
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What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.
David Baltimore
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Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
Luc Montagnier
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When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.
Jonas Salk
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
Don Francis
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
Jonas Salk
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AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.
Luc Montagnier
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Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.
Steven Hatfill
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Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
Jonas Salk
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As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.
Jonas Salk
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I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.
Albert Sabin
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What is ... important is that we - number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other.
Jonas Salk
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What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
Jonas Salk
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Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
Stanley B. Prusiner
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My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
Luc Montagnier
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It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
Jonas Salk
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