Luc Montagnier Quotes

#1. We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

Luc Montagnier

#2. We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

Luc Montagnier

#3. We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.

Luc Montagnier

#4. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#5. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#6. When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio because the pictures were better.

Alistair Cooke

#7. I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

Jon Bon Jovi

#8. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Jason Kidd

#9. What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Luc Montagnier

#10. Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Aeschylus

#11. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#12. My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

Luc Montagnier

#13. He looks like a lost puppy, but has the heart of a bitch.

David Levithan

#14. Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Luc Montagnier

#16. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#17. I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Mark Haddon

#18. They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Luc Montagnier

#19. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#20. The most profound security threat we face today is global warming ... climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

William J. Clinton

#21. It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Luc Montagnier

#22. Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

Luc Montagnier

#23. I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Luc Montagnier

#24. I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Luc Montagnier

#25. Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

Luc Montagnier

#26. I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

Luc Montagnier

#27. It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

Luc Montagnier

#28. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#29. We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

Luc Montagnier

#30. What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.

Luc Montagnier

#31. It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

Jules Verne

#32. The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

Joseph Campbell

#33. 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.

Luc Montagnier

#34. How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?

Neal A. Maxwell

#35. For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Spike Milligan

#36. They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

James Madison

#37. The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Calvin Coolidge

#38. That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.

Luc Montagnier

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

Luc Montagnier