Viruses Quotes

• Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

  Dan Brown

  Form, Faster, Contagion

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.729, Knopf

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• A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Three, Purpose, Next

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.awaken.com. October 22, 2012.

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  Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Humanity

  "My Cancer Brings All the Crazies to the Yard" by Kevin Lankes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Passion

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.797, Modern Library

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• The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Men, Dominance, Planets

  "Ebola Epidemic 'Out of Control'", abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.

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• An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

  James Lovelock

  Clever, Host

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• There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

  Mira Grant

  World, Patient, Host

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.360, Hachette UK

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• Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

  Peter Høeg

  Epidemics, Disease, Whining

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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• I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in "The Daily News", August 4, 1994.

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• Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

  Laurie Garrett

  Vaccines, Battle, Pandemics

  "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

  Seth Lloyd

  Ignorance, Spread, Interaction

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• Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

  Bill Hicks

  Shoes, Humanity

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• I caught the happy virus last night
  When I was out singing beneath the stars.
  It is remarkably contagious -
  So kiss me.

  Hafez

  Stars, Kissing, Night

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• Language is a virus from outer space.

  William S. Burroughs

  Space, Language, Outer Space

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Freedom, Men, President

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• Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

  Immortal Technique

  Running, Ignorance, Soul

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• For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

  Margaret Chan

  Real, Track, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Engineering, Design, Needs

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.

  Lewis Thomas

  Party, Dna, Sea

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We really depend on viruses for our complete survival.

  Carl Zimmer

  Survival, Depends

  Source: bigthink.com

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• hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Revenge, Hate, Cures

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• Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.

  Carl Zimmer

  Sick, Sometimes, Ends

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Trying, Earth, Bacteria

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