Quotes About Rare Diseases

#1. Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#2. Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Anthony Fauci

#3. If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Josette Sheeran

#5. Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Craig Venter

#6. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

Naveen Jain

#7. Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I'm okay. I've finally made a few new friends."
"I know," she sighed. "It makes me miss you more, ...

Devon Monk

#9. Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

Soko

#10. Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

Genesis P-Orridge

#11. To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Saint Basil

#12. The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

George C. Homans

#13. Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Robert A. Burton

#14. This form of interspecies leap is common, not rare; about 60 percent of all human infectious diseases currently known either cross routinely or have recently crossed between other animals and us.

David Quammen

#15. The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

Ralph W. Moss

#16. Knowledge has no value if it does not enhance your wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Aldous Huxley

#18. Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Stephen Hawking

#19. Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.

William Maxwell

#20. Please don't shut out love- it's the best thing about life

James Patterson

#21. You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

Magic Johnson

#22. The next time you are heading out the door, pause at the mirror and make sure that what you see reflects your purpose and value. That doesn't mean donning the burka, but it probably doesn't mean having words on your butt either.

Amy E. Spiegel

#23. Here in Bosnia I had already seen several cases of rheumatic fever and a case we thought was miliary tuberculosis, diseases now rare in America. It was sobering to think that the mundane process of vaccinating these children might ultimately save more lives than any UN-brokered peace treaty.

Pamela Grim