Immunological Quotes

#1. Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

John Updike

#2. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

Janet Malcolm

#3. One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray ... , and chemotherapy, is the suppression ... of the patient's immunological defenses ... A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.

G. Edward Griffin

#4. Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.

Elaine Morgan

#5. Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

Baruj Benacerraf

#6. The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#7. The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

Ben Morgan

#8. The are times when in mercy God must shatter our most cherished assumptions

Thomas Morton

#9. On All Saints' Sunday, I am faced with sticky ambiguities around saints who were bad and sinners who were good.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#10. It's like we're on a rocket ship that we were just painting, and suddenly it took off and we're holding onto the ship with our fingernails.

Esteban Contreras

#11. Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#12. Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Richard Sherman