Harvey V. Fineberg Quotes

• We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Gone, World, Prevention

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• Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Motivation, Inspiration, Different

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• The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Flu, Unpredictable

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• Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Children, Autism, Improvement

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Views, Sea, Passing On

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• Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Imagine, Terrorist, Worst

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• At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Ocean, Bacteria, Heat

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• Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Mind, Substance, World

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