Quotes by Rene Dubos

Rene Dubos

… each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

Civilization

Community

Groups

… men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

Danger

Men

Risk

…Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

Age

Dark

May

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Essentials

Religion

Religious

Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

Destiny

Order

Self

As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as “Nature”. There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.

Blood

Home

Life

As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

Adventure

Independent

Struggle

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

Animal

Men

Unique

But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (…) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.

Challenges

Creating

Expression

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

Boredom

Creative

Goal

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Acting

Adventure

Age

Animal

Art

Association

Believe

Blood

Body

Boredom

Challenges

Character

Civilization

Climate Change

Community

Concerned

Creating

Creative

Culture

Danger

Dark

Decision

Destiny

Differences

Disease

Diversity

Earth

Earth Day

Environmental

Essentials

Eugenics

Evolution

Expression

Facts

Goal

Groups

Half

Healing

Health

Home

Humans

Important

Independent

Indirect

Intention

Life

Light

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Quotes by Rene Dubos

Rene Dubos

… each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed in this regard.

… men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on which they depend for a constructive existence.

…Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (…) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.

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