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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."
"Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said."
"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."
"Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?"
"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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