top of page
"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Disease quotes

"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."

"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."

"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."

"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
Explore more quotes by Luc Montagnier

"Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him."

"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."

"The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet."

"One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation."

"Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible."

"It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe."

"AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases."
bottom of page