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• In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Errors, Design

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do that?' Because sometimes it is the safest, cheapest and most effective technology to advance sustainable agriculture and enhance food security.

  Pamela Ronald

  Technology, Agriculture, People

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• Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.

  James F. Bell, III

  Fear, Block, Mind

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Men, Trying

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Education is the key to perpetuation of the [god] virus for the Taliban, Baptist or Catholic. If the virus cannot control public education, it will seek to divert resources from public coffers to fundamentalist school funding. From the madrassa schools of Pakistan to the Christian push for school vouchers in the United States and the religious home school movement, religions seek to control education or to control the resources for education.

  Darrel Ray

  Christian, Religious, School

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.

  Darrel Ray

  Moving, Self, Catholic

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• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  Kary Mullis

  Years, Umpires, Mystery

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• The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

  Luc Montagnier

  Ideas, Vaccines, Way

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• With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Years, Vaccines, Flu

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• Even to this day, the government, the FDA is refusing to use the sophisticated biotechnology to evaluate the contaminants in the vaccines such as the polio vaccines that they are administering. I think (people) would be appalled that some of the vaccines that are currently being used are still laced with viruses.

  Leonard Horowitz

  Thinking, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.

  Paul Stamets

  Cancer, Unique, Opportunity

  "Turkey Tail Mushrooms Help Immune System Fight Cancer" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

  Phil Plait

  Pseudoscience, Levels, Lows

  "Scientist attacks alien claims on Mars" By Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2004.

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• Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Bacteria, Teeth

  Bruce Fife (2017). “Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing”, p.89, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to trail Mehan Asnik, a suspected terrorist, through the streets of London. He had escaped from our security services while infected with a plague virus. Tracking him on CCTV, I swear I had him but then, in the rush-hour bustle, lost him. When the secure mobile rang, it was Harry Pearce at Thames House, chewing me out for the slaughter that had been caused by my mistake.

  Mark Lawson

  Mistake, Yesterday, House

  "TV matters: Spooks Interactive" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.

  George A. Romero

  People, Zombie, Week

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2008.

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  John Updike

  Sex, Health, Order

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House

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• When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.

  Gore Vidal

  Moving, Presidential, Fever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  Nate Mendel

  Pregnancy, Hiv, Flu

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

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• People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Party, People, Wish

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• The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Civilization, Information, Environment

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• Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

  Richard Wilbur

  Men, Thinking, Sea

  1957 'Pangloss's Song', from Candide.

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• We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Depressing, Agency, Self

  "Waiting For The Barbarians" by Lewis H. Lapham, (p. 197), 1997.

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• [Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.

  Walter Gilbert

  May, Causes, Aids

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• I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument .

  Walter Gilbert

  Trying, Agents, Association

  Personal email message, momentofscience.blogspot.ru. July 11, 2006.

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