Elie Metchnikoff Quotes

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don't even define it the way we do. Bipartisanship, as they define it, as in we cave on our core beliefs and agree with them. That is bipartisanship. There is no compromise.

The only way you learn is by failure.

Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

Giving is a way of having what you need.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.