Prevention is better than cure.
Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.
A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future.
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.
There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.
